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pith:XTGYVNFA

pith:2009:XTGYVNFAHV7HPP6CJACJ4C456V
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First proton-proton collisions at the LHC as observed with the ALICE detector: measurement of the charged particle pseudorapidity density at $\sqrt{s}$ = 900 GeV

ALICE Collaboration

arxiv:0911.5430 v3 · 2009-11-28 · hep-ex

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Canonical hash

bccd8ab4a03d7e77bfc248049e0b9df5587f5ddb9d77cf193bde672851ad0639

Aliases

arxiv: 0911.5430 · arxiv_version: 0911.5430v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0911.5430 · pith_short_12: XTGYVNFAHV7H · pith_short_16: XTGYVNFAHV7HPP6C · pith_short_8: XTGYVNFA
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XTGYVNFAHV7HPP6CJACJ4C456V \
  | 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: bccd8ab4a03d7e77bfc248049e0b9df5587f5ddb9d77cf193bde672851ad0639
Canonical record JSON
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ex",
    "submitted_at": "2009-11-28T22:01:29Z",
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  "source": {
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  }
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