Pith Number

pith:RCBEGG72

pith:2002:RCBEGG72YAX65LU6S4QZ6W7N4D

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Understanding Bottom Production

E. Laenen (NIKHEF), N. Kidonakis (Rochester), R. Vogt (LBNL, S. Moch (Karlsruhe), UC Davis)

arxiv:hep-ph/0208119 v1 · 2002-08-12 · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RCBEGG72YAX65LU6S4QZ6W7N4D}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-04T15:32:21.279157Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8882431bfac02feeae9e97219f5bede0e3511c4a4324d28235ecd1388a31a411

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/0208119 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/0208119v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0208119 · pith_short_12: RCBEGG72YAX6 · pith_short_16: RCBEGG72YAX65LU6 · pith_short_8: RCBEGG72

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/RCBEGG72YAX65LU6S4QZ6W7N4D \
  | 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: 8882431bfac02feeae9e97219f5bede0e3511c4a4324d28235ecd1388a31a411

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2e021e59e6326046f2bd5a96ce59e615bae988a756829336f2abf7f40deff30c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-08-12T23:49:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3088fbdc8910585c477065842c6bb36a6e64c5d07d1241b5f3e609dda8cb0a89"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/0208119",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}