Pith Number

pith:NIE7XK3O

pith:1999:NIE7XK3O3DVXJD3PRPHDH5NFJ3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Fourth Generation b-prime decays into b + Higgs

Marc Sher (William, Mary)

arxiv:hep-ph/9908238 v2 · 1999-08-04 · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NIE7XK3O3DVXJD3PRPHDH5NFJ3}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T04:26:03.044753Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6a09fbab6ed8eb748f6f8bce33f5a54eef6d62c43105172959919b5621819bb5

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/9908238 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/9908238v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9908238 · pith_short_12: NIE7XK3O3DVX · pith_short_16: NIE7XK3O3DVXJD3P · pith_short_8: NIE7XK3O

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/NIE7XK3O3DVXJD3PRPHDH5NFJ3 \
  | 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: 6a09fbab6ed8eb748f6f8bce33f5a54eef6d62c43105172959919b5621819bb5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bb49849f307a94a57e4f3c3071715bd479e1c2887b1f742fefc14eb33f6b95c3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1999-08-04T09:00:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5447fb050235240d2ff9b04798ac3bf0a573e7403a4a8e2173b4ac380ead357c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/9908238",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}