Pith Number

pith:XWMD2NH5

pith:2026:XWMD2NH5WOQAHJ6ZLRJKVG22DQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Muon-Catalyzed Nuclear Fusion: Physical Mechanism, Bottleneck Breakthroughs, and an Engineering Pathway

Wei Kou, Xiong Yin, Xurong Chen

arxiv:2605.26432 v1 · 2026-05-26 · hep-ph · nucl-ex · nucl-th · physics.acc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XWMD2NH5WOQAHJ6ZLRJKVG22DQ}

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4 Citations 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	2026-05-27T01:05:17.681366Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bd983d34fdb3a003a7d95c52aa9b5a1c2fa32302a097126f956b0f586e7a12bc

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.26432 · arxiv_version: 2605.26432v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.26432 · pith_short_12: XWMD2NH5WOQA · pith_short_16: XWMD2NH5WOQAHJ6Z · pith_short_8: XWMD2NH5

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/XWMD2NH5WOQAHJ6ZLRJKVG22DQ \
  | 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: bd983d34fdb3a003a7d95c52aa9b5a1c2fa32302a097126f956b0f586e7a12bc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9bd83f30b8a91c2f0631efe4eee1e13ec6944e100097b2f0c26bc564fe1e639b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "nucl-ex",
      "nucl-th",
      "physics.acc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-26T01:37:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f3e7fe28e6075cba182bb84aa63b016e81a69d408372f0fa24b87666e3f150d1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.26432",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}