Pith Number

pith:IGJB4JFO

pith:1997:IGJB4JFOIUDLQ7JTVEWNC7XFJI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Incorporation of the statistical uncertainty in the background estimate into the upper limit on the signal

et al, K.K. Gan

arxiv:physics/9707020 v1 · 1997-07-25 · physics.data-an · hep-ex

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IGJB4JFOIUDLQ7JTVEWNC7XFJI}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:38:04.505627Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

41921e24ae4506b87d33a92cd17ee54a0b311b6e22129546bf31b3dd8b6a4a56

Aliases

arxiv: physics/9707020 · arxiv_version: physics/9707020v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.physics/9707020 · pith_short_12: IGJB4JFOIUDL · pith_short_16: IGJB4JFOIUDLQ7JT · pith_short_8: IGJB4JFO

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IGJB4JFOIUDLQ7JTVEWNC7XFJI \
  | 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: 41921e24ae4506b87d33a92cd17ee54a0b311b6e22129546bf31b3dd8b6a4a56

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "87c43e0c40762f25cb0b4728e86c53a651c24d0debbd75ad316a18714e9624a4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ex"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "physics.data-an",
    "submitted_at": "1997-07-25T16:04:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0dede79852cb5cef0a739ee132044d7a6b94497f8e900b837a8d051b6b824b94"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "physics/9707020",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}