Pith Number

pith:V3X5YYTU

pith:2017:V3X5YYTUMJ2BDQWTXJKGHTGVTV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Average energy required to produce an ion pair, revisited

A. Nahum, C. Ma, E. Fourkal, K. Paskalev

arxiv:1703.10032 v1 · 2017-03-29 · physics.plasm-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V3X5YYTUMJ2BDQWTXJKGHTGVTV}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:47:38.776614Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aeefdc6274627411c2d3ba5463ccd59d710b911236f975220d718150ebc41c71

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.10032 · arxiv_version: 1703.10032v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.10032 · pith_short_12: V3X5YYTUMJ2B · pith_short_16: V3X5YYTUMJ2BDQWT · pith_short_8: V3X5YYTU

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/V3X5YYTUMJ2BDQWTXJKGHTGVTV \
  | 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: aeefdc6274627411c2d3ba5463ccd59d710b911236f975220d718150ebc41c71

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0dcfb8fd609822f757f4e6e4f5515e4fef997941010e201d77efbb524c12d1cf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.plasm-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-29T13:43:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "38b9baaea992604c50570d21443df1a7e14614d19bc722d2a1efb9fcf2a68d31"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.10032",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}