CERN's LHCb Collaboration Discovers Final Member of Doubly Charmed Baryon Family, the Ωcc⁺

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Published: 2026-06-18
Category: science
Source: CERN
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Physicists with the LHCb Collaboration at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have detected the elusive Ωcc⁺ baryon, a particle composed of two charm quarks and one strange quark. This discovery completes a long-sought family of doubly charmed baryons, first predicted over half a century ago, and represents a significant milestone in particle physics.

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