We report on transient pump-probe spectroscopy of equilibrated solvated electrons in neat water in the visibleear-infrared using femtosecond pulses and polarization resolution.By excitation in the blue wing of the absorption band the e are promoted from the 1s ground state to the highest of the 2p sub-states. First rapid solvent relaxation and/or population redistrbution among the excited 2p sub-states is followed by the population of a modified excited state p' with a lifetime of #tau#_2=190+-40 fs.The second intermediate is assigned to a modified ground state s'' while subsequent ground state recovery proceeds within #tau#_3=0.9+-0.15 ps. The negligible net anisotropy <0.01 of the probe absorption indicates that the observed distribution of solvent cavities of hydrated electrons is close to spherical symmetry.
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