{"paper":{"title":"Do tau lepton branching fractions obey Benford's law?","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["hep-ex","physics.data-an"],"primary_cat":"physics.soc-ph","authors_text":"Aisha Dantuluri, Shantanu Desai","submitted_at":"2017-09-28T06:52:51Z","abstract_excerpt":"According to Benford's law, the most significant digit in many datasets is not uniformly distributed, but obeys a well defined power law distribution with smaller digits appearing more often. Among one of the myriad particle physics datasets available, we find that the leading decimal digit for the $\\tau$ lepton branching fraction shows marginal disagreement with the logarithmic behavior expected from the Benford distribution. We quantify the deviation from Benford's law using a $\\chi^2$ function valid for binomial data, and obtain a $\\chi^2$ value of 16.9 for nine degrees of freedom, which gi"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1709.09823","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}