\title{Photproduction of the very strange baryons on a proton target in CLAS12}
\author{
        the Very Strange Collaboration
}
\date{\today}

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\begin{abstract}
Almost half a century after the prediction and discovery of the
$\Omega^-$ baryon, many properties of the $S=-2$ and $-3$ hyperon resonances remain unknown.
The production of these resonances have been predicted by various theoretical models 
in a photo-production environment. 
The CLAS experiment from the 6 GeV program has validated such predictions for the Cascade
sector. 
The CLAS12 experiment offers a unique opportunity to study the production mechanism
of the $S=-2, -3$ baryons with high precision and statistics in exclusive photo-nuclear
reactions.

The production mechanism of these states is of particular interest: the change of strangeness number is large from the initial state to the final state baryon, there is no current precision measurement of the differential cross section for the $\Omega^-$ 
and there is no polarization measurement of the cascades in photoproduction.
The spin-parity of the few relatively well-established cascade states,
such as $\Xi(1690)$ and $\Xi(1820)$, may be confirmed via the
double moments analysis technique using the combined decay angular distributions.
The improved CLAS12 detector acceptance for the few-particle final states,
which is necessary for the detection of these baryons, makes it possible
to access their  production mechanisms.

The proposed experiment would be run in parallel with the approved CLAS12 meson 
spectroscopy experiment using the forward tagger currently under construction.  
This experiment is expected to yield the statistics necessary to perform the cross
section measurements for the $\Omega^-$ baryon.
In addition, the proposed experiment is expected to yield high
statistics for Cascade baryons, corresponding to the world's largest sample
for the $\Xi$ ground state in photoproduction and allowing the possibility of discoveries of
new excited
$\Xi$-states, and the determination of  their quantum numbers.
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