Pith Number

pith:RJ2BSWWM

pith:2014:RJ2BSWWMKCR6SGCFNART6OQBEA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The BetaCage, an ultra-sensitive screener for surface contamination

A. Rider, A. Zahn, B. Wang, D. R. Grant, M. A. Bowles, M. Kos, R. Bunker, R. H. Nelson, R. W. Schnee, S. R. Golwala, Z. Ahmed

arxiv:1404.5803 v1 · 2014-04-23 · physics.ins-det · hep-ex

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RJ2BSWWMKCR6SGCFNART6OQBEA}

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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	2026-05-18T02:53:27.882240Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8a74195acc50a3e9184568233f3a01200e89a8c6da57e36b6b109cf8a7ee5cc7

Aliases

arxiv: 1404.5803 · arxiv_version: 1404.5803v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1404.5803 · pith_short_12: RJ2BSWWMKCR6 · pith_short_16: RJ2BSWWMKCR6SGCF · pith_short_8: RJ2BSWWM

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/RJ2BSWWMKCR6SGCFNART6OQBEA \
  | 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: 8a74195acc50a3e9184568233f3a01200e89a8c6da57e36b6b109cf8a7ee5cc7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "50e9a5cde90f1c33a94d7a63e387b85ebd5b73d58762a749c36fb8b1a71775a1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ex"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.ins-det",
    "submitted_at": "2014-04-23T12:29:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "15a8aa7d46ecf9a855a025ecf735cc3753a8bc5e6fc742f6150626d13f43070b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1404.5803",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}