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pith:IS56RB3I

pith:2017:IS56RB3IVHF4T2SS66O7HGAAHL

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Design and construction of a high-energy photon polarimeter

B. G. Ritchie, B. N. Thorpe, F. J. Barbosa, K. Moriya, M. Dugger, N. Sandoval, N. Sparks, R. J. Lee, R. J. Tucker, R. T. Jones, T. Hodges

Source: arxiv:1703.07875 v1 · Submitted 2017-03-22 · License http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Categories: physics.ins-det · nucl-ex

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:37:34.113514Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`, fingerprint `8d4b5ee74e4693bc…`) · public key
Signature value	`aF2DvuMPwJjYTFW8N20zU95qy22XeuGmW58easwlAjI9OjO4iZbPmPx5wpdCgAHy7a+gxJHMxNOfzpB6xvibCA==`
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

44bbe88768a9cbc9ea52f79df398003ae2b63a6a5011155bcc438b4e5be124eb

Aliases

Kind	Value
arxiv	`1703.07875`
arxiv_version	`1703.07875v1`
doi	`10.48550/arxiv.1703.07875`

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Three shell lines recompute the canonical hash. If the hash you compute matches the one shown above, the record is intact end-to-end.

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IS56RB3IVHF4T2SS66O7HGAAHL \
  | 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: 44bbe88768a9cbc9ea52f79df398003ae2b63a6a5011155bcc438b4e5be124eb

Verify the Pith Ed25519 signature against the published public key:

curl -s https://pith.science/pith-signing-key.json | jq -r .public_key_b64 \
  | base64 -d > /tmp/pith_pub.bin
python3 -c "
from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.ed25519 import Ed25519PublicKey
import base64
pub = Ed25519PublicKey.from_public_bytes(open('/tmp/pith_pub.bin','rb').read())
sig = base64.b64decode('aF2DvuMPwJjYTFW8N20zU95qy22XeuGmW58easwlAjI9OjO4iZbPmPx5wpdCgAHy7a+gxJHMxNOfzpB6xvibCA==')
digest = bytes.fromhex('44bbe88768a9cbc9ea52f79df398003ae2b63a6a5011155bcc438b4e5be124eb')
pub.verify(sig, digest)
print('signature OK')"

Show canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c89f9434f954c21f72f05c426740c2e8035997013a35e0aba3b4131881cc3df1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "nucl-ex"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ins-det",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-22T22:51:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "48156d7bea76338a554385c0c1e8524421d67d7df483a94671626a605a726791"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.07875",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}