Pith Number

pith:XKEUB5EC

pith:1995:XKEUB5ECG5OIXK7MXG5I3AXV7V

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Are Antiprotons Forever?

G. A. Smith, M. H. Holzscheiter, M. M. Nieto, N. S. P. King, R. A. Lewis, T. Goldman, X. Feng

arxiv:hep-ex/9506015 v3 · 1995-06-29 · hep-ex · hep-ph · nucl-ex · nucl-th

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XKEUB5ECG5OIXK7MXG5I3AXV7V}

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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	2026-07-04T15:18:33.163086Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ba8940f482375c8babecb9ba8d82f5fd6d57e4a1031e5de1243a958ae9eb0f83

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ex/9506015 · arxiv_version: hep-ex/9506015v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ex/9506015 · pith_short_12: XKEUB5ECG5OI · pith_short_16: XKEUB5ECG5OIXK7M · pith_short_8: XKEUB5EC

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/XKEUB5ECG5OIXK7MXG5I3AXV7V \
  | 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: ba8940f482375c8babecb9ba8d82f5fd6d57e4a1031e5de1243a958ae9eb0f83

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "938eb4f68d516e72cf4f3e782cdcf9b85b9153f5f157eebaa2900134556020ef",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "hep-ph",
      "nucl-ex",
      "nucl-th"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ex",
    "submitted_at": "1995-06-29T05:10:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "651326feaa9eb676ebce12de9da8d0b6f3c574c57e0a43664ca1a7eea62870ba"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ex/9506015",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}