Pith Number

pith:B54IF5JZ

pith:1999:B54IF5JZ27UY6FBTSI7XJKI6WH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Color Neutrality and the Gluon Distribution in a Very Large Nucleus

C.S. Lam, Gregory Mahlon (McGill University)

arxiv:hep-ph/9907281 v3 · 1999-07-08 · hep-ph · nucl-th

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B54IF5JZ27UY6FBTSI7XJKI6WH}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T02:36:27.762389Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0f7882f539d7e98f1433923f74a91eb1c7a25fde9fe8ab7bf27e8da49314339f

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/9907281 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/9907281v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9907281 · pith_short_12: B54IF5JZ27UY · pith_short_16: B54IF5JZ27UY6FBT · pith_short_8: B54IF5JZ

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/B54IF5JZ27UY6FBTSI7XJKI6WH \
  | 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: 0f7882f539d7e98f1433923f74a91eb1c7a25fde9fe8ab7bf27e8da49314339f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9c5f2b2b09418d0900b405105af8a616fd6a83c25cf7998806de7ee6920ee5b7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "nucl-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1999-07-08T19:10:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "77e499fb62ac3277a24f65bb3ff81985a1c5c3d2696e001cddbe3a045cafb24a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/9907281",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}