Pith Number

pith:BBCEIM5N

pith:2015:BBCEIM5NSDRVI2KSCT4XMFXGBF

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Shielding concepts for low-background proportional counter arrays in surface laboratories

Allen Seifert, Craig E. Aalseth, Emily K. Mace, John L. Orrell, Paul H. Humble, Richard M. Williams

arxiv:1512.07565 v1 · 2015-12-23 · physics.ins-det · nucl-ex

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\pithnumber{BBCEIM5NSDRVI2KSCT4XMFXGBF}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:23:49.351476Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

08444433ad90e354695214f97616e6096a6d73a6a71840a668f583e60d541bc7

Aliases

arxiv: 1512.07565 · arxiv_version: 1512.07565v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1512.07565 · pith_short_12: BBCEIM5NSDRV · pith_short_16: BBCEIM5NSDRVI2KS · pith_short_8: BBCEIM5N

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BBCEIM5NSDRVI2KSCT4XMFXGBF \
  | 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: 08444433ad90e354695214f97616e6096a6d73a6a71840a668f583e60d541bc7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "aaf00007709412cb74be22dcd6def068d03d9aa8be2b0c883a7ff328d5ec24df",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "nucl-ex"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ins-det",
    "submitted_at": "2015-12-23T17:59:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3be2ff334d5239d7d01c49899b248ec3edb4a81502551fada9e9ed419eebfbb2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1512.07565",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}