Pith Number

pith:VWMOVAZU

pith:2000:VWMOVAZUV2JH7OOXBJW4S5C2VH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Charge Distribution on the Cathode of a Straw Tube Chamber

Changguo Lu, Kirk T. McDonald

arxiv:hep-ex/0009006 v1 · 2000-09-03 · hep-ex

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VWMOVAZUV2JH7OOXBJW4S5C2VH}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T14:26:28.188906Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad98ea8334ae927fb9d70a6dc9745aa9f0c81f119661832c5922e3ccd6f40f9f

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ex/0009006 · arxiv_version: hep-ex/0009006v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ex/0009006 · pith_short_12: VWMOVAZUV2JH · pith_short_16: VWMOVAZUV2JH7OOX · pith_short_8: VWMOVAZU

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/VWMOVAZUV2JH7OOXBJW4S5C2VH \
  | 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: ad98ea8334ae927fb9d70a6dc9745aa9f0c81f119661832c5922e3ccd6f40f9f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8a9b79f9c0af493d53d718e47733fadd7dc009d5191b3b9965e1f47c885504b8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ex",
    "submitted_at": "2000-09-03T20:00:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "07adca4fa85629c12f4cd702c499796dae3f1bcb1cc6d7c023ee6d13d6fad7c9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ex/0009006",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}