Pith Number

pith:BZ2P3KXX

pith:1997:BZ2P3KXX25WQOQRSV5B2U62SCL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Measurement of the W Boson Mass

B. Abbott, B.S. Acharya, et.al, M. Abolins

arxiv:hep-ex/9712028 v1 · 1997-12-22 · hep-ex

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BZ2P3KXX25WQOQRSV5B2U62SCL}

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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	2026-07-04T15:32:16.113114Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0e74fdaaf7d76d074232af43aa7b5212f47c05310e6bbd2a7b15f85b2eac24a0

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ex/9712028 · arxiv_version: hep-ex/9712028v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ex/9712028 · pith_short_12: BZ2P3KXX25WQ · pith_short_16: BZ2P3KXX25WQOQRS · pith_short_8: BZ2P3KXX

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/BZ2P3KXX25WQOQRSV5B2U62SCL \
  | 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: 0e74fdaaf7d76d074232af43aa7b5212f47c05310e6bbd2a7b15f85b2eac24a0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "93305c13692adfde31b710a739ed0256819457f3288d2cdda40a86708e63c150",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ex",
    "submitted_at": "1997-12-22T23:38:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5174aadef7f463a17c9b9e772a91d2110cf60a04b58ffbeb34c3bd4d636f6b4d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ex/9712028",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}