Pith Number

pith:FYDYHIKA

pith:1997:FYDYHIKACWS3FNYWJQS5MNLNT7

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/9712029 v1 · 1997-12-22 · hep-ex

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FYDYHIKACWS3FNYWJQS5MNLNT7}

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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	2026-07-04T15:32:16.136306Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2e0783a14015a5b2b7164c25d6356d9ffe0f9d895714a05ce854d967cf291e5e

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ex/9712029 · arxiv_version: hep-ex/9712029v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ex/9712029 · pith_short_12: FYDYHIKACWS3 · pith_short_16: FYDYHIKACWS3FNYW · pith_short_8: FYDYHIKA

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/FYDYHIKACWS3FNYWJQS5MNLNT7 \
  | 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: 2e0783a14015a5b2b7164c25d6356d9ffe0f9d895714a05ce854d967cf291e5e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1737f387ef8c5df72981f7665f5be473fc6da4259a080766bf8690d432d2fa33",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ex",
    "submitted_at": "1997-12-22T23:46:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5174aadef7f463a17c9b9e772a91d2110cf60a04b58ffbeb34c3bd4d636f6b4d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ex/9712029",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}