Pith Number

pith:MZW3TRMY

pith:2018:MZW3TRMYK2B2JLDXUU6QVV7Z3I

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Temperature Dependence of the Neutron Lifespan

Cheng Tao Yang, Jeremiah Birrell, Johann Rafelski (Arizona)

arxiv:1805.06543 v1 · 2018-05-16 · nucl-th · astro-ph.CO · physics.plasm-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MZW3TRMYK2B2JLDXUU6QVV7Z3I}

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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	2026-05-18T00:15:44.115947Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

666db9c5985683a4ac77a53d0ad7f9da1c26a47ca3c9c38a1f3e52b12da806b4

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.06543 · arxiv_version: 1805.06543v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.06543 · pith_short_12: MZW3TRMYK2B2 · pith_short_16: MZW3TRMYK2B2JLDX · pith_short_8: MZW3TRMY

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/MZW3TRMYK2B2JLDXUU6QVV7Z3I \
  | 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: 666db9c5985683a4ac77a53d0ad7f9da1c26a47ca3c9c38a1f3e52b12da806b4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4d36cdb1f07b2056ffc828f44cd6c5833a07fd595fefa84b7c6b8dafd030a1d2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.CO",
      "physics.plasm-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "nucl-th",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-16T22:23:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e0356c0fa687237866e9dcd69504220acb981c5fa3d1eb0ed9245d220de6e8e5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.06543",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}