{
  "pdg_version": "PDG 2024 (S. Navas et al., Phys. Rev. D 110, 030001 (2024))",
  "data_freeze_date": "2024-05-31",
  "grade": "RELATION",
  "safe_wording": "This suite verifies that every observed particle is quantum-number-consistent with its geometry-derived constituents and that the parameter-free QCD symmetry relations hold against PDG-2024; it does NOT compute or claim absolute hadron masses from geometry.",
  "tolerances": {
    "gmo_octet_rel_tol": {
      "value": 0.01,
      "kind": "relative",
      "rationale": "Gell-Mann-Okubo 2(m_N+m_Xi)=3*m_Lambda+m_Sigma holds to ~0.6% in PDG-2024; second-order SU(3) breaking is sub-percent. A >1% violation falsifies the linear-breaking assumption. Source: foundation/01_mass_method_catalog.md method 3."
    },
    "decuplet_equal_spacing_rel_tol": {
      "value": 0.10,
      "kind": "relative",
      "rationale": "Decuplet equal-spacing steps (Sigma*-Delta, Xi*-Sigma*, Omega-Xi*) agree to ~7% in PDG-2024; the spacing has known curvature in m_s. Steps differing by >10% beyond curvature falsify equal spacing. Source: foundation/01_mass_method_catalog.md method 4."
    },
    "regge_r2_floor": {
      "value": 0.97,
      "kind": "min_r_squared",
      "rationale": "M^2 vs J (orbital) and M^2 vs n (radial) are linear to ~5-10% across PDG light-meson and N* towers. We require the least-squares coefficient of determination R^2 >= 0.97 for the linearity RELATION to PASS. Source: foundation/01_mass_method_catalog.md method 6."
    },
    "regge_slope_positive": {
      "value": true,
      "kind": "bool",
      "rationale": "A physical Regge trajectory must have a POSITIVE slope of M^2 in J (and in radial n): higher angular momentum / radial excitation => larger mass-squared. A non-positive fitted slope falsifies the linear-Regge ansatz."
    }
  },
  "fail_closed": true
}