Pith Number

pith:S3Z3WPQL

pith:1999:S3Z3WPQLQUMRBYU3AZYE7LFLU2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Study of tau decays involving kaons, spectral functions and determination of the strange quark mass

ALEPH Collaboration, R. Barate

arxiv:hep-ex/9903015 v1 · 1999-03-11 · hep-ex

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\pithnumber{S3Z3WPQLQUMRBYU3AZYE7LFLU2}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-04T15:32:17.540525Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

96f3bb3e0b851910e29b06704facaba6a8c68fc57912cdaf453aeb59a2b495fb

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ex/9903015 · arxiv_version: hep-ex/9903015v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ex/9903015 · pith_short_12: S3Z3WPQLQUMR · pith_short_16: S3Z3WPQLQUMRBYU3 · pith_short_8: S3Z3WPQL

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/S3Z3WPQLQUMRBYU3AZYE7LFLU2 \
  | 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: 96f3bb3e0b851910e29b06704facaba6a8c68fc57912cdaf453aeb59a2b495fb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e29992eacbcabc52503fff3d6fb8c5cb6a731b9987dc92f20764d6df8d3fa3f2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ex",
    "submitted_at": "1999-03-11T13:55:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "181ceda0b52572542c6da7f9a1715754a1128a1fff043974da8e2b96dcd3c057"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ex/9903015",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}