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A maximum likelihood estimate of natural mortality for brown tiger prawn (Penaeus esculentus) in Moreton Bay (Australia)
The delay difference model was implemented to fit 21 years of brown tiger
prawn (Penaeus esculentus) catch in Moreton Bay by maximum likelihood to assess
the status of this stock. Monte Carlo simulations testing of the stock
assessment software coded in C++ showed that the model could estimate
simultaneously natural mortality in addition to catchability, recruitment and
initial biomasses. Applied to logbooks data collected from 1990 to 2010, this
implementation of the delay difference provided for the first time an estimate
of natural mortality for brown tiger prawn in Moreton Bay, equal to week. This estimate is approximately 30\% lower than the value of
natural mortality (0.045 week) used in previous stock assessments of
this species
Searching for dark matter via mono- boson production at the ILC
High energy colliders provide a new unique way to determine the microscopic
properties of the dark matter (DM). Weakly interacting massive particles
(WIMPs) are widely considered as one of the best DM candidates. It is usually
assumed that the WIMP couples to the SM sector through its interactions with
quarks and leptons. In this paper, we investigate the DM pair production
associated with a boson in an effective field theory framework at the
International Linear Collider (ILC), which can be used to study the
interactions between the DM and leptons. For illustrative purposes, we present
the integrated and differential cross sections for the process, where the boson is radiated from the initial
state electron or positron. Meanwhile, we analyze the neutrino pair production
in association with a boson as the SM background.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figure
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