Pith Number

pith:R3HBN2PD

pith:1998:R3HBN2PD7EPHC5RGASDIIH4OQP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

QCD Anatomy of B -> X_s gamma Decays

A.L. Kagan (Univ. Cincinnati), M. Neubert (CERN)

arxiv:hep-ph/9805303 v2 · 1998-05-12 · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{R3HBN2PD7EPHC5RGASDIIH4OQP}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T04:13:18.279995Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8ece16e9e3f91e7176260486841f8e83f97860921b3daea23f98651841c8bed5

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/9805303 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/9805303v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9805303 · pith_short_12: R3HBN2PD7EPH · pith_short_16: R3HBN2PD7EPHC5RG · pith_short_8: R3HBN2PD

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/R3HBN2PD7EPHC5RGASDIIH4OQP \
  | 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: 8ece16e9e3f91e7176260486841f8e83f97860921b3daea23f98651841c8bed5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c2ff5032ecf9f3d569ac78f5f7a48ff27171a1292717f1bfaba2103f5f3cdf66",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-05-12T21:45:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7b308a052e73df3c76342adfdd3855ab8eeeca9ccb73c9d2f9ab2782119370db"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/9805303",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}