Pith Number

pith:N4MYQXCB

pith:1996:N4MYQXCBMXZPZUFSLCYOWCPUL5

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The $B_c$ Meson Lifetime

G. Buchalla, M. Beneke

arxiv:hep-ph/9601249 v1 · 1996-01-12 · hep-ph

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4 papers in Pith

A unified study of the $B_c$ meson: from spectrum and form factors to weak and radiative decays

Revisiting lifetimes of doubly charmed baryons

Averages of $b$-hadron, $c$-hadron, and $\tau$-lepton properties as of 2023

New Predictions for the Lifetimes of Doubly Heavy Baryons and the $B_c$ Meson

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First computed	2026-07-04T15:39:15.786305Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6f19885c4165f2fcd0b258b0eb09f45f580c7a8797b0338029e9bb4f75857466

Aliases

arxiv: hep-ph/9601249 · arxiv_version: hep-ph/9601249v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9601249 · pith_short_12: N4MYQXCBMXZP · pith_short_16: N4MYQXCBMXZPZUFS · pith_short_8: N4MYQXCB

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/N4MYQXCBMXZPZUFSLCYOWCPUL5 \
  | 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: 6f19885c4165f2fcd0b258b0eb09f45f580c7a8797b0338029e9bb4f75857466

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4bd604fb38b99cde132e6bb0b5cbf9b4b5ebab54714a2b4958097e3eb8c0a5f1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "hep-ph",
    "submitted_at": "1996-01-12T02:34:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1833bce909eb6e83adb9b5c61fa528c817e21faed6a67db1a19d98e78372c7fd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "hep-ph/9601249",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}