Pith Number

pith:USQUFKPS

pith:2012:USQUFKPSIYQQMHD6SOXALBLGDB

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Particle Physics in a Season of Change

Chris Quigg

arxiv:1202.4391 v1 · 2012-02-20 · hep-ph · hep-ex

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{USQUFKPSIYQQMHD6SOXALBLGDB}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T01:58:23.446692Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a4a142a9f24621061c7e93ae0585661872cf033348810f2863ca42a57b6367b3

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.4391 · arxiv_version: 1202.4391v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.4391 · pith_short_12: USQUFKPSIYQQ · pith_short_16: USQUFKPSIYQQMHD6 · pith_short_8: USQUFKPS

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/USQUFKPSIYQQMHD6SOXALBLGDB \
  | 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: a4a142a9f24621061c7e93ae0585661872cf033348810f2863ca42a57b6367b3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4b8b968acf13b50a673848ddc990c629e22e8a586965259807bb135e32bc58bf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ex"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-20T17:23:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "84940d2bd66fb5ecc21af024cd6490981ea6acd9605db67058732c13e9d2f93a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.4391",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}