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Observation of the $Ω (2012)$ baryon at the LHC

S. Acharya ⁵⁰, A. Agarwal¹³³, G. Aglieri Rinella ³², L. Aglietta ^24a,24b, M. Agnello ²⁹, N. Agrawal ^25a,25b, Z. Ahammed ¹³³, S. Ahmad ¹⁵, S. U. Ahn ⁷¹ et al. (ALICE Collaboration)

S. U. Ahn ⁷¹, I. Ahuja ³⁶, A. Akindinov ¹³⁹, V. Akishina³⁸, M. Al-Turany ⁹⁶, D. Aleksandrov ¹³⁹, B. Alessandro ⁵⁶, H. M. Alfanda ⁶, R. Alfaro Molina ⁶⁷, B. Ali ¹⁵, A. Alici ^25a,25b, N. Alizadehvandchali ¹¹⁴, A. Alkin ¹⁰³, J. Alme ²⁰, G. Alocco ^24a,24b, T. Alt ⁶⁴, A. R. Altamura ⁵⁰, I. Altsybeev ⁹⁴, J. R. Alvarado ⁴⁴, M. N. Anaam ⁶, C. Andrei ⁴⁵, N. Andreou ¹¹³, A. Andronic ¹²⁴, E. Andronov ¹³⁹, V. Anguelov ⁹³, F. Antinori ⁵⁴, P. Antonioli ⁵¹, N. Apadula ⁷³, L. Aphecetche ¹⁰², H. Appelshäuser ⁶⁴, C. Arata ⁷², S. Arcelli ^25a,25b, R. Arnaldi ⁵⁶, J. G. M. C. A. Arneiro ¹⁰⁹, I. C. Arsene ¹⁹, M. Arslandok ¹³⁶, A. Augustinus ³², R. Averbeck ⁹⁶, D. Averyanov ¹³⁹, M. D. Azmi ¹⁵, H. Baba¹²², A. Badalà ⁵³, J. Bae ¹⁰³, Y. Bae ¹⁰³, Y. W. Baek ⁴⁰, X. Bai ¹¹⁸, R. Bailhache ⁶⁴, Y. Bailung ⁴⁸, R. Bala ⁹⁰, A. Baldisseri ¹²⁸, B. Balis ², Z. Banoo ⁹⁰, V. Barbasova ³⁶, F. Barile ^31a,31b, L. Barioglio ⁵⁶, M. Barlou ⁷⁷, B. Barman ⁴¹, G. G. Barnaföldi ⁴⁶, L. S. Barnby ¹¹³, E. Barreau ¹⁰², V. Barret ¹²⁵, L. Barreto ¹⁰⁹, C. Bartels ¹¹⁷, K. Barth ³², E. Bartsch ⁶⁴, N. Bastid ¹²⁵, S. Basu ⁷⁴, G. Batigne ¹⁰², D. Battistini ⁹⁴, B. Batyunya ¹⁴⁰, D. Bauri⁴⁷, J. L. Bazo Alba ¹⁰⁰, I. G. Bearden ⁸², P. Becht ⁹⁶, D. Behera ⁴⁸, I. Belikov ¹²⁷, A. D. C. Bell Hechavarria ¹²⁴, F. Bellini ^25a,25b, R. Bellwied ¹¹⁴, S. Belokurova ¹³⁹, L. G. E. Beltran ¹⁰⁸, Y. A. V. Beltran ⁴⁴, G. Bencedi ⁴⁶, A. Bensaoula¹¹⁴, S. Beole ^24a,24b, Y. Berdnikov ¹³⁹, A. Berdnikova ⁹³, L. Bergmann ⁹³, L. Bernardinis^23a,23b, M. G. Besoiu ⁶³, L. Betev ³², P. P. Bhaduri ¹³³, A. Bhasin ⁹⁰, B. Bhattacharjee ⁴¹, S. Bhattarai¹¹⁶, L. Bianchi ^24a,24b, J. Bielčík ³⁴, J. Bielčíková ⁸⁵, A. P. Bigot ¹²⁷, A. Bilandzic ⁹⁴, A. Binoy ¹¹⁶, G. Biro ⁴⁶, S. Biswas ^4a,4b, N. Bize ¹⁰², J. T. Blair ¹⁰⁷, D. Blau ¹³⁹, M. B. Blidaru ⁹⁶, N. Bluhme³⁸, C. Blume ⁶⁴, F. Bock ⁸⁶, T. Bodova ²⁰, J. Bok ¹⁶, L. Boldizsár ⁴⁶, M. Bombara ³⁶, P. M. Bond ³², G. Bonomi ^55,132, H. Borel ¹²⁸, A. Borissov ¹³⁹, A. G. Borquez Carcamo ⁹³, E. 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Pisano ⁴⁹, M. Płoskoń ⁷³, M. Planinic ⁸⁸, D. K. Plociennik ², M. G. Poghosyan ⁸⁶, B. Polichtchouk ¹³⁹, S. Politano ²⁹, N. Poljak ⁸⁸, A. Pop ⁴⁵, S. Porteboeuf-Houssais ¹²⁵, V. Pozdniakov ^140,†, I. Y. Pozos ⁴⁴, K. K. Pradhan ⁴⁸, S. K. Prasad ^4a,4b, S. Prasad ⁴⁸, R. Preghenella ⁵¹, F. Prino ⁵⁶, C. A. Pruneau ¹³⁵, I. Pshenichnov ¹³⁹, M. Puccio ³², S. Pucillo ^24a,24b, S. Qiu ⁸³, L. Quaglia ^24a,24b, A. M. K. Radhakrishnan⁴⁸, S. Ragoni ¹⁴, A. Rai ¹³⁶, A. Rakotozafindrabe ¹²⁸, L. Ramello ^56,131, C. O. Ramirez-Alvarez ⁴⁴, M. Rasa ^26a,26b, S. S. Räsänen ⁴³, R. Rath ⁵¹, M. P. Rauch ²⁰, I. Ravasenga ³², K. F. Read ^86,120, C. Reckziegel ¹¹¹, A. R. Redelbach ³⁸, K. Redlich ^78,††, C. A. Reetz ⁹⁶, H. D. Regules-Medel ⁴⁴, A. Rehman²⁰, F. Reidt ³², H. A. Reme-Ness ³⁷, K. Reygers ⁹³, A. Riabov ¹³⁹, V. Riabov ¹³⁹, R. Ricci ^28a,28b, M. Richter ²⁰, A. A. Riedel ⁹⁴, W. Riegler ³², A. G. Riffero ^24a,24b, M. Rignanese ^27a,27b, C. Ripoli ^28a,28b, C. Ristea ⁶³, M. V. Rodriguez ³², M. Rodríguez Cahuantzi ⁴⁴, S. A. Rodríguez Ramírez ⁴⁴, K. Røed ¹⁹, R. Rogalev ¹³⁹, E. Rogochaya ¹⁴⁰, T. S. Rogoschinski ⁶⁴, D. Rohr ³², D. Röhrich ²⁰, S. Rojas Torres ³⁴, P. S. Rokita ¹³⁴, G. Romanenko ^25a,25b, F. Ronchetti ³², D. Rosales Herrera ⁴⁴, E. D. Rosas⁶⁵, K. Roslon ¹³⁴, A. Rossi ⁵⁴, A. Roy ⁴⁸, S. Roy ⁴⁷, N. Rubini ⁵¹, J. A. Rudolph⁸³, D. Ruggiano ¹³⁴, R. Rui ^23a,23b, P. G. Russek ², R. Russo ⁸³, A. Rustamov ⁸⁰, E. Ryabinkin ¹³⁹, Y. Ryabov ¹³⁹, A. Rybicki ¹⁰⁶, L. C. V. Ryder ¹¹⁶, J. Ryu ¹⁶, W. Rzesa ¹³⁴, B. Sabiu ⁵¹, S. Sadovsky ¹³⁹, J. Saetre ²⁰, S. Saha ⁷⁹, B. Sahoo ⁴⁸, R. Sahoo ⁴⁸, D. Sahu ⁴⁸, P. K. Sahu ⁶¹, J. Saini ¹³³, K. Sajdakova³⁶, S. Sakai ¹²³, M. P. Salvan ⁹⁶, S. Sambyal ⁹⁰, D. Samitz ¹⁰¹, I. Sanna ^32,94, T. B. Saramela¹⁰⁹, D. Sarkar ⁸², P. Sarma ⁴¹, V. Sarritzu ^22a,22b, V. M. Sarti ⁹⁴, M. H. P. Sas ³², S. Sawan ⁷⁹, E. Scapparone ⁵¹, J. Schambach ⁸⁶, H. S. Scheid ^32,64, C. Schiaua ⁴⁵, R. Schicker ⁹³, F. Schlepper ^32,93, A. Schmah⁹⁶, C. Schmidt ⁹⁶, M. O. Schmidt ³², M. Schmidt⁹², N. V. Schmidt ⁸⁶, A. R. Schmier ¹²⁰, J. Schoengarth ⁶⁴, R. Schotter ¹⁰¹, A. Schröter ³⁸, J. Schukraft ³², K. Schweda ⁹⁶, G. Scioli ^25a,25b, E. Scomparin ⁵⁶, J. E. Seger ¹⁴, Y. Sekiguchi¹²², D. Sekihata ¹²², M. Selina ⁸³, I. Selyuzhenkov ⁹⁶, S. Senyukov ¹²⁷, J. J. Seo ⁹³, D. Serebryakov ¹³⁹, L. Serkin ^65,‡‡, L. Šerkšnytė ⁹⁴, A. Sevcenco ⁶³, T. J. Shaba ⁶⁸, A. Shabetai ¹⁰², R. Shahoyan ³², A. Shangaraev ¹³⁹, B. Sharma ⁹⁰, D. Sharma ⁴⁷, H. Sharma ⁵⁴, M. Sharma ⁹⁰, S. Sharma ⁹⁰, U. Sharma ⁹⁰, A. Shatat ¹²⁹, O. Sheibani^114,135, K. Shigaki ⁹¹, M. Shimomura ⁷⁶, S. Shirinkin ¹³⁹, Q. Shou ³⁹, Y. Sibiriak ¹³⁹, S. Siddhanta ⁵², T. Siemiarczuk ⁷⁸, T. F. Silva ¹⁰⁹, D. Silvermyr ⁷⁴, T. Simantathammakul ¹⁰⁴, R. Simeonov ³⁵, B. Singh⁹⁰, B. Singh ⁹⁴, K. Singh ⁴⁸, R. Singh ⁷⁹, R. Singh ^54,96, S. Singh ¹⁵, V. K. Singh ¹³³, V. Singhal ¹³³, T. Sinha ⁹⁸, B. Sitar ¹³, M. Sitta ^56,131, T. B. Skaali¹⁹, G. Skorodumovs ⁹³, N. Smirnov ¹³⁶, R. J. M. Snellings ⁵⁹, E. H. Solheim ¹⁹, C. Sonnabend ^32,96, J. M. Sonneveld ⁸³, F. Soramel ^27a,27b, A. B. Soto-Hernandez ⁸⁷, R. Spijkers ⁸³, I. Sputowska ¹⁰⁶, J. Staa ⁷⁴, J. Stachel ⁹³, I. Stan ⁶³, P. J. Steffanic ¹²⁰, T. Stellhorn ¹²⁴, S. F. Stiefelmaier ⁹³, D. Stocco ¹⁰², I. Storehaug ¹⁹, N. J. Strangmann ⁶⁴, P. Stratmann ¹²⁴, S. Strazzi ^25a,25b, A. Sturniolo ^30,53, C. P. Stylianidis⁸³, A. A. P. Suaide ¹⁰⁹, C. Suire ¹²⁹, A. Suiu ^32,112, M. Sukhanov ¹³⁹, M. Suljic ³², R. Sultanov ¹³⁹, V. Sumberia ⁹⁰, S. Sumowidagdo ⁸¹, L. H. Tabares ⁷, S. F. Taghavi ⁹⁴, J. Takahashi ¹¹⁰, G. J. Tambave ⁷⁹, S. Tang ⁶, Z. Tang ¹¹⁸, J. D. Tapia Takaki ¹¹⁶, N. Tapus ¹¹², L. A. Tarasovicova ³⁶, M. G. Tarzila ⁴⁵, A. Tauro ³², A. Tavira García ¹²⁹, G. Tejeda Muñoz ⁴⁴, L. Terlizzi ^24a,24b, C. Terrevoli ⁵⁰, D. Thakur ^24a,24b, S. Thakur ^4a,4b, M. Thogersen ¹⁹, D. Thomas ¹⁰⁷, A. Tikhonov ¹³⁹, N. Tiltmann ^32,124, A. R. Timmins ¹¹⁴, M. Tkacik¹⁰⁵, T. Tkacik ¹⁰⁵, A. Toia ⁶⁴, R. Tokumoto⁹¹, S. Tomassini ^25a,25b, K. Tomohiro⁹¹, N. 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Zurlo ^55,132 (ALICE Collaboration)

¹A.I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (Yerevan Physics Institute) Foundation, Yerevan, Armenia
²AGH University of Krakow, Krakow, Poland
³Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
^4aBose Institute, Department of Physics, Kolkata, India
^4bCentre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science (CAPSS), Kolkata, India
⁵California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, USA
⁶Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
⁷Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN), Havana, Cuba
⁸Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV), Mexico City and Měrida, Mexico
⁹Chicago State University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
¹⁰China Nuclear Data Center, China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing, China
¹¹China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China
¹²Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Republic of Korea
¹³Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
¹⁴Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
¹⁵Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
¹⁶Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
¹⁷Department of Physics, Sejong University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
¹⁸Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
¹⁹Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
²⁰Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
²¹Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
^22aDipartimento di Fisica dell’Università, Cagliari, Italy
^22bSezione INFN, Cagliari, Italy
^23aDipartimento di Fisica dell’Università, Trieste, Italy
^23bSezione INFN, Trieste, Italy
^24aDipartimento di Fisica dell’Università, Turin, Italy
^24bSezione INFN, Turin, Italy
^25aDipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Università, Bologna, Italy
^25bSezione INFN, Bologna, Italy
^26aDipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Università, Catania, Italy
^26bSezione INFN, Catania, Italy
^27aDipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell’Università, Padova, Italy
^27bSezione INFN, Padova, Italy
^28aDipartimento di Fisica ‘E.R. Caianiello’ dell’Università, Salerno, Italy
^28bGruppo Collegato INFN, Salerno, Italy
²⁹Dipartimento DISAT del Politecnico and Sezione INFN, Turin, Italy
³⁰Dipartimento di Scienze MIFT, Università di Messina, Messina, Italy
^31aDipartimento Interateneo di Fisica “M. Merlin,” Bari, Italy
^31bSezione INFN, Bari, Italy
³²European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland
³³Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Split, Split, Croatia
³⁴Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
³⁵Faculty of Physics, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria
³⁶Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovak Republic
³⁷Faculty of Technology, Environmental and Social Sciences, Bergen, Norway
³⁸Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
³⁹Fudan University, Shanghai, China
⁴⁰Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangneung, Republic of Korea
⁴¹Gauhati University, Department of Physics, Guwahati, India
⁴²Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
⁴³Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP), Helsinki, Finland
⁴⁴High Energy Physics Group, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
⁴⁵Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania
⁴⁶HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
⁴⁷Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), Mumbai, India
⁴⁸Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
⁴⁹INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
⁵⁰INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
⁵¹INFN, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
⁵²INFN, Sezione di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
⁵³INFN, Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy
⁵⁴INFN, Sezione di Padova, Padova, Italy
⁵⁵INFN, Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
⁵⁶INFN, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
⁵⁷INFN, Sezione di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
⁵⁸Inha University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
⁵⁹Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Utrecht University/Nikhef, Utrecht, Netherlands
⁶⁰Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Košice, Slovak Republic
⁶¹Institute of Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Bhubaneswar, India
⁶²Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
⁶³Institute of Space Science (ISS), Bucharest, Romania
⁶⁴Institut für Kernphysik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
⁶⁵Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
⁶⁶Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
⁶⁷Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
⁶⁸iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation, Somerset West, South Africa
⁶⁹Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea
⁷⁰Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität Frankfurt Institut für Informatik, Fachbereich Informatik und Mathematik, Frankfurt, Germany
⁷¹Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
⁷²Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble, France
⁷³Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
⁷⁴Lund University Department of Physics, Division of Particle Physics, Lund, Sweden
⁷⁵Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki, Japan
⁷⁶Nara Women’s University (NWU), Nara, Japan
⁷⁷National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Science, Department of Physics, Athens, Greece
⁷⁸National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland
⁷⁹National Institute of Science Education and Research, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Jatni, India
⁸⁰National Nuclear Research Center, Baku, Azerbaijan
⁸¹National Research and Innovation Agency–BRIN, Jakarta, Indonesia
⁸²Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
⁸³Nikhef, National Institute for Subatomic Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
⁸⁴Nuclear Physics Group, STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury, United Kingdom
⁸⁵Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Husinec-Řež, Czech Republic
⁸⁶Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
⁸⁷Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
⁸⁸Physics department, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
⁸⁹Physics Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
⁹⁰Physics Department, University of Jammu, Jammu, India
⁹¹Physics Program and International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter (WPI-SKCM²), Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
⁹²Physikalisches Institut, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
⁹³Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
⁹⁴Physik Department, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
⁹⁵Politecnico di Bari and Sezione INFN, Bari, Italy
⁹⁶Research Division and ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
⁹⁷Saga University, Saga, Japan
⁹⁸Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
⁹⁹School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
¹⁰⁰Sección Física, Departamento de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
¹⁰¹Stefan Meyer Institut für Subatomare Physik (SMI), Vienna, Austria
¹⁰²SUBATECH, IMT Atlantique, Nantes Université, CNRS-IN2P3, Nantes, France
¹⁰³Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon City, Republic of Korea
¹⁰⁴Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
¹⁰⁵Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovak Republic
¹⁰⁶The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland
¹⁰⁷The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
¹⁰⁸Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Culiacán, Mexico
¹⁰⁹Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil
¹¹⁰Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
¹¹¹Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo Andre, Brazil
¹¹²Universitatea Nationala de Stiinta si Tehnologie Politehnica Bucuresti, Bucharest, Romania
¹¹³University of Derby, Derby, United Kingdom
¹¹⁴University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
¹¹⁵University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
¹¹⁶University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
¹¹⁷University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
¹¹⁸University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
¹¹⁹University of South-Eastern Norway, Kongsberg, Norway
¹²⁰University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
¹²¹University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
¹²²University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
¹²³University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
¹²⁴Universität Münster, Institut für Kernphysik, Münster, Germany
¹²⁵Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
¹²⁶Université de Lyon, CNRS/IN2P3, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon, Lyon, France
¹²⁷Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPHC UMR 7178, F-67000 Strasbourg, France, Strasbourg, France
¹²⁸Université Paris-Saclay, Centre d’Etudes de Saclay (CEA), IRFU, Départment de Physique Nucléaire (DPhN), Saclay, France
¹²⁹Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, Orsay, France
¹³⁰Università degli Studi di Foggia, Foggia, Italy
¹³¹Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli, Italy
¹³²Università di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
¹³³Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Kolkata, India
¹³⁴Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
¹³⁵Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
¹³⁶Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
¹³⁷Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
¹³⁸Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
¹³⁹Affiliated with an institute formerly covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN
¹⁴⁰Affiliated with an international laboratory covered by a cooperation agreement with CERN

^*Full author list given at the end of the article.
^†Deceased.
^‡Also at Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik, Munich, Germany.
^§Also at Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), Bologna, Italy.
^∥Also at Dipartimento DET del Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy.
^¶Also at Lehigh University, USA.
^**Also at Department of Applied Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India.
^††Also at Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Wroclaw, Poland.
^‡‡Also at Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico.

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Phys. Rev. D 112, 092002 – Published 7 November, 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/v4mh-3r8z

Abstract

A signal consistent with the $Ω (2012)$ baryon has been observed with a significance of $15 σ$ in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$ at the LHC. In this paper, the analysis technique is described and measurements of the mass and width of the $Ω (2012)$ are reported, along with the first measurement of its transverse-momentum spectrum and yield. This paper corroborates the observation by the Belle Collaboration of this excited $Ω$ state and the observation that the $Ω (2012)$ has a rather narrow width for a strongly decaying resonance. The yield measurement is combined with a statistical thermal model calculation of strange baryon yield ratios to obtain estimates of the $Ω (2012)^{-} \to Ξ \bar{K}$ branching ratios. These results will improve our understanding of the internal structure and mass spectrum of excited baryon states and serve as a baseline for searches regarding modifications of these properties in high-temperature media.

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Phys. Rev. D 112, 092002– Published 7 November, 2025

Vol. 112, Iss. 9 — 1 November 2025

Received 10 March 2025
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/v4mh-3r8z

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