Review of bottomonium measurements from CMS

We review the results on the bottomonium system from the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Measurements have been carried out at different center-of-mass energies in proton collisions and in collisions involving heavy ions. These include precision measurements of cross sections and polarizations, shedding light on hadroproduction mechanisms, and the observation of quarkonium sequential suppression, a notable indication of quark-gluon plasma formation. The observation of the production of bottomonium pairs is also reported along with searches for new states. We close with a brief outlook of the future physics program.Comment: 32 page

Effect of K0−Kˉ0K^{0}-\bar{K}^{0} Mixing on CPCP Asymmetries in Weak Decays of DD and BB Mesons

Within the standard electroweak model we carry out an instructive analysis of the effect of $K^{0}-\bar{K}^{0}$ mixing on $CP$ asymmetries in some weak decay modes of $D^{\pm}$ and $\stackrel{(-)}{B}$$^{0}_{d}$ mesons. We point out that a clean signal of $CP$ violation with magnitude of 2Re($\epsilon$) $\approx 3.3\times 10^{-3}$ can manifest in the semileptonic decays $D^{+}\rightarrow l^{+}\nu^{~}_{l}K_{S}$ ($K_{L}$) vs $D^{-}\rightarrow l^{-}\bar{\nu}^{~}_{l}K_{S}$ ($K_{L}$). The $CP$ asymmetries are also dominated by 2Re($\epsilon$) in the two-body nonleptonic decays $D^{\pm} \rightarrow (\pi^{\pm}, \rho^{\pm}, a^{\pm}_{1})+ (K_{S}, K_{L})$ and in the multi-body processes $D^{\pm}\rightarrow \pi^{\pm}+n_{0}\pi^{0}+n_{\pm} (\pi^{\pm}\pi^{\mp})+ (K_{S}, K_{L})$, where $n_{0}$ and $n_{\pm}$ are integers. It is possible to observe such $CP$-violating signals with about $10^{7}$ $D^{\pm}$ events at $\tau$-charm factories or hadron machines. Finally we show that the $CP$ asymmetry induced by Re($\epsilon$) may compete with those from $B^{0}_{d}-\bar{B}^{0}_{d}$ mixing and final-state interactions in the semi-inclusive and exclusive decays $B_{d}\rightarrow X(c\bar{c})+(K_{S}, K_{L})$ on the $\Upsilon (4S)$ resonance.Comment: 10 Latex pages + 2 figures. Phys. Lett. B (in printing

Lineage/species-specific expansion of the Mx gene family in teleosts : Differential expression and modulation of nine Mx genes in rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss

This work was partially funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC, BB/R008442/1). Tingyu Wang was supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Republic of China (Taiwan) (MOST 107-2917-I-564-019). Fuguo Liu was supported by a Newton International Fellowship funded by the Academy of Medical Sciences, UK (AMS, NIF004\1036). Guangming Tian was supported financially by the State Scholarship Fund organised by the China Scholarship Council (201808420042).Peer reviewedPostprin

Expansion of fish CCL20_like chemokines by genome and local gene duplication : Characterisation and expression analysis of 10 CCL20_like chemokines in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

Acknowledgements Fuguo Liu was supported by a Newton International Fellowship funded by the Academy of Medical Sciences, UK (AMS, NIF004\1036). Tingyu Wang was supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Republic of China (Taiwan) (MOST 107-2917-I-564-019). YH was supported by a PhD Studentship from the Ministry of Education, Republic of China. Guangming Tian was supported financially by the State Scholarship Fund organised by the China Scholarship Council (201808420042).Peer reviewedPostprin

Prognostic abilities of different calculation formulas for the glomerular filtration rate in elderly Chinese patients with coronary artery disease

OBJECTIVE: As a standard indicator of renal function, the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is vital for the prognostic analysis of elderly patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). Thus, the search for the calculation equation of GFR with the best prognostic ability is an important task. The most commonly used Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) equation and the Chinese version (CMDRD) of the MDRD equation has many shortcomings. The newly developed Mayo Clinic quadratic (Mayo) and Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) equations may overcome these shortcomings. Because the populations involved in these equation-related studies are almost completely devoid of subjects > 70 years of age, there are more debates on the performance of these equations in the elderly. This study was designed to compare the prognostic abilities of different calculation formulas for the GFR in elderly Chinese patients with CAD. METHODS: This study included 1050 patients (≥60 years of age) with CAD. The endpoint was all-cause mortality over a mean follow-up period of 417 days. RESULTS: The median age was 86 years (60–104 years). The median values for the MDRD-GFR, CMDRD-GFR, CKD-EPI-GFR, and Mayo-GFR were 66.0, 69.2, 65.6, and 75.8 mL/minute/1.73 m(2), respectively. The prevalence of GFR < 60 mL/minute/1.73 m(2) based on these measures was 39.3%, 35.4%, 43.0%, and 28.7%, respectively. Their area under the curve values for predicting death were 0.611, 0.610, 0.625, and 0.632, respectively. Their cut-off points for predicting death were 54.1, 53.5, 48.0, and 57.4 mL/minute/1.73 m(2), respectively. Compared with the MDRD-GFR, the net reclassification improvement values of the CMDRD-GFR, CKD-EPI-GFR, and Mayo-GFR were 0.02, 0.10, and 0.14, respectively. CONCLUSION: The prognostic abilities of the CKD-EPI and Mayo equations were significantly superior to the MDRD and CMDRD equations; the Mayo equation had a mild, but not statistically significant superiority compared with the CKD-EPI equation in elderly Chinese patients with CAD

Evolution of IFN subgroups in bony fish - 2. analysis of subgroup appearance and expansion in teleost fish with a focus on salmonids

Acknowledgements FL was supported by a Newton International Fellowship funded by the Academy of Medical Sciences, UK (AMS, NIF004\1036). Thanks go to Mingli Liu (Shanghai Ocean University) for help with the bioinformatics analysis of the Icefish/Toothfish, and to Drs Dan Macqueen and Manu Gundappa (Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh) for helpful discussions and advice on the analysis.Peer reviewedPostprin

Immune-modulation of two BATF3 paralogues in rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss

This work was supported by the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos., 31511130137 and 31372568). Dr Jun Wang’s visit to the Scottish Fish Immunology Research Centre was funded by the China Scholarship Council (CSC).Peer reviewedPostprin