Pith Number

pith:HOUTJMWB

pith:2013:HOUTJMWBZPUFUOMQILKH2NZ4RC

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Why the US Needs a Deep Domestic Research Facility: Owning rather than Renting the Education Benefits, Technology Advances, and Scientific Leadership of Underground Physics

Kevin T. Lesko

arxiv:1304.0402 v1 · 2013-04-01 · physics.ins-det · hep-ex

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HOUTJMWBZPUFUOMQILKH2NZ4RC}

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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	2026-05-18T03:29:17.029841Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3ba934b2c1cbe85a399042d47d373c889ec0d4e4c8975b67d11ba1094022a4c0

Aliases

arxiv: 1304.0402 · arxiv_version: 1304.0402v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1304.0402 · pith_short_12: HOUTJMWBZPUF · pith_short_16: HOUTJMWBZPUFUOMQ · pith_short_8: HOUTJMWB

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/HOUTJMWBZPUFUOMQILKH2NZ4RC \
  | 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: 3ba934b2c1cbe85a399042d47d373c889ec0d4e4c8975b67d11ba1094022a4c0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "877f583aa63618baf6a73b9bce29fa2784d71eb235b2295d57c26bfa6d440de0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ex"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ins-det",
    "submitted_at": "2013-04-01T17:55:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fc39fb21c7a072235eaec36323f8e205f5a37d693cbcbc391aec9c7c29594e39"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1304.0402",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}