Pith Number

pith:WSUUTFHU

pith:1998:WSUUTFHUJGADQ4FTEP26JCIBJX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Exclusive Semileptonic and Rare B-Meson Decays in QCD

Patricia Ball, V.M. Braun

arxiv:hep-ph/9805422 v2 · 1998-05-22 · hep-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WSUUTFHUJGADQ4FTEP26JCIBJX}

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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	2026-05-18T01:08:04.454483Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b4a94994f449803870b323f5e489014dd0f4b5d56a2ada69025d979693c71503

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/9805422 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/9805422v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9805422 · pith_short_12: WSUUTFHUJGAD · pith_short_16: WSUUTFHUJGADQ4FT · pith_short_8: WSUUTFHU

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/WSUUTFHUJGADQ4FTEP26JCIBJX \
  | 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: b4a94994f449803870b323f5e489014dd0f4b5d56a2ada69025d979693c71503

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "32c4f160b7d608d511d5a027fddbf764bd51b959fd837081d0e122739a393bcb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1998-05-22T12:25:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aac67e45389de07967b7d0a5f423c077d7c7a57dd27c8efeaa7fe27923cda902"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/9805422",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}