Pith Number

pith:AFNEG5CV

pith:2021:AFNEG5CVAU24HERNBY5EKDKEFC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Brewster route to Cherenkov detectors

Baile Zhang, Hao Hu, Hongsheng Chen, Ido Kaminer, John Joannopoulos, Kezhen Yin, Marin Solja\v{c}i\'c, Michele Piero Blago, Sajan Easo, Xiao Lin, Yichen Shen, Yi Yang, Yu Luo

arxiv:2107.11996 v1 · 2021-07-26 · physics.optics · cond-mat.mtrl-sci · physics.app-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AFNEG5CVAU24HERNBY5EKDKEFC}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T03:26:02.228279Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

015a4374550535c3922d0e3a450d44288988f31ee75ba5d538c5db833eefb2cd

Aliases

arxiv: 2107.11996 · arxiv_version: 2107.11996v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2107.11996 · pith_short_12: AFNEG5CVAU24 · pith_short_16: AFNEG5CVAU24HERN · pith_short_8: AFNEG5CV

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/AFNEG5CVAU24HERNBY5EKDKEFC \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 015a4374550535c3922d0e3a450d44288988f31ee75ba5d538c5db833eefb2cd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ffbe016aec51a8ad39754379f4e60cbd8a3f3ca86370850839b42b21ac93d50d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.mtrl-sci",
      "physics.app-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2021-07-26T07:15:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "84c7d92b47ddc885da3e4302003d56197f19c3f39e4d15b8012673da1b0814ec"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2107.11996",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}