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pith:1998:AV42AD4M3256APQNSKVC7T7IZ5
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Measurement of the Strong Coupling Constant and the Vector and Axial-Vector Spectral Functions in Hadronic Tau Decays

K.Ackerstaff et al, The OPAL collaboration

arxiv:hep-ex/9808019 v1 · 1998-08-20 · hep-ex

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0579a00f8cdebbe03e0d92aa2fcfe8cf6b5cb3f11a86ef8bc4c06f8beb155785

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arxiv: hep-ex/9808019 · arxiv_version: hep-ex/9808019v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ex/9808019 · pith_short_12: AV42AD4M3256 · pith_short_16: AV42AD4M3256APQN · pith_short_8: AV42AD4M
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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/AV42AD4M3256APQNSKVC7T7IZ5 \
  | 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: 0579a00f8cdebbe03e0d92aa2fcfe8cf6b5cb3f11a86ef8bc4c06f8beb155785
Canonical record JSON
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