Pith Number

pith:RTSHVSGD

pith:2016:RTSHVSGDCBE67V76TTPQZLP6EM

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The theoretical physics ecosystem behind the discovery of the Higgs boson

James D. Wells

arxiv:1609.04268 v1 · 2016-09-14 · physics.hist-ph · hep-ex · hep-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RTSHVSGDCBE67V76TTPQZLP6EM}

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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	2026-05-18T01:03:56.408633Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8ce47ac8c31049efd7fe9cdf0cadfe233426c6d5b091c6a5ac0b651d1cddde8c

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.04268 · arxiv_version: 1609.04268v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.04268 · pith_short_12: RTSHVSGDCBE6 · pith_short_16: RTSHVSGDCBE67V76 · pith_short_8: RTSHVSGD

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/RTSHVSGDCBE67V76TTPQZLP6EM \
  | 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: 8ce47ac8c31049efd7fe9cdf0cadfe233426c6d5b091c6a5ac0b651d1cddde8c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ece9538edb0307cc04462ddd3bc698e9e3e9eed886d92b10ad4db019fc53de6e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ex",
      "hep-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.hist-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-14T13:42:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "68d202d1702b9118310ece00c2d684aeb7ce2f041ea4bb9980b8d3cf81597738"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.04268",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}