Pith Number

pith:BA7KVSI5

pith:1997:BA7KVSI56KCY3KDWB2VHN5A5GI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Light masses in short distance penguin loops

George Sterman (Stony Brook), Giulia Ricciardi (INFN Naples, Harvard Univ.), INFN, Mario Abud (Naples Univ., Naples)

arxiv:hep-ph/9712346 v2 · 1997-12-11 · hep-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BA7KVSI56KCY3KDWB2VHN5A5GI}

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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	2026-05-18T02:36:59.463879Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

083eaac91df2858da8760eaa76f41d32371d670efb09ea457bd92c5cca83ad37

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/9712346 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/9712346v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9712346 · pith_short_12: BA7KVSI56KCY · pith_short_16: BA7KVSI56KCY3KDW · pith_short_8: BA7KVSI5

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/BA7KVSI56KCY3KDWB2VHN5A5GI \
  | 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: 083eaac91df2858da8760eaa76f41d32371d670efb09ea457bd92c5cca83ad37

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5760a2da42f50dad51d928f67786a689f1e229af34697a1c86010ff195f68a9e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1997-12-11T13:56:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "abf1ff637cd84a1024f5546d424d85f9db848b8c7a48a5aacce460ad03688b78"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/9712346",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}