Pith Number

pith:VPPFQPRN

pith:2016:VPPFQPRNFWJSBTDVDJ7XP6RHFN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A closer look at the $R_D$ and $R_{D^*}$ anomalies

Debjyoti Bardhan, Diptimoy Ghosh, Pritibhajan Byakti

arxiv:1610.03038 v5 · 2016-10-10 · hep-ph · hep-ex

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VPPFQPRNFWJSBTDVDJ7XP6RHFN}

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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	2026-05-18T00:12:35.650304Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

abde583e2d2d9320cc751a7f77fa272b74ecb42a20796d9a32778d9c081fc9e3

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.03038 · arxiv_version: 1610.03038v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.03038 · pith_short_12: VPPFQPRNFWJS · pith_short_16: VPPFQPRNFWJSBTDV · pith_short_8: VPPFQPRN

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/VPPFQPRNFWJSBTDVDJ7XP6RHFN \
  | 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: abde583e2d2d9320cc751a7f77fa272b74ecb42a20796d9a32778d9c081fc9e3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0cbb5f2e17968cbaca9a41cb232286e9f01244739fd8414f99d5327597203bcf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ex"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-10T19:26:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3b27bb2e27aa4690586ee25a4c90eff332239784e2ad91d4384462f8dbff0b82"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.03038",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}