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No relationship between fecundity and annual reproductive rate in bony fish
Background. There is still a widespread notion that bony fishes with high fecundities
are more productive and therefore more resistant to overexploitation. The purpose of
this study was to formally explore the relationship between fecundity and reproductive
success expressed as maximum annual reproductive rate, i.e. the number of new
spawners produced by existing spawners at low population densities.
Material and methods. We used maximum annual reproductive rate from a recent
study covering 49 species of bony fish; we used fecundity estimates from the published
literature.
Results. We found no significant relationship between fecundity (ranging from 368 to
10 million eggs) and maximum annual reproductive rate (ranging from 0.4 to 13.5
replacement spawners).
Conclusion. Fecundity in oviparous bony fish without parental care has no relation with
reproductive success. Apparently high fecundity in bony fish has evolved to counterbalance
pre-adult mortality, as indicated by the fact that variance in fecundity is 3 orders
of magnitude larger than variance in annual reproductive rate
The 125 GeV boson: A composite scalar?
Assuming that the 125 GeV particle observed at the LHC is a composite scalar
and responsible for the electroweak gauge symmetry breaking, we consider the
possibility that the bound state is generated by a non-Abelian gauge theory
with dynamically generated gauge boson masses and a specific chiral symmetry
breaking dynamics motivated by confinement. The scalar mass is computed with
the use of the Bethe-Salpeter equation and its normalization condition as a
function of the SU(N) group and the respective fermionic representation. If the
fermions that form the composite state are in the fundamental representation of
the SU(N) group, we can generate such light boson only for one specific number
of fermions for each group. In the case of small groups, like SU(2) to SU(5),
and two fermions in the adjoint representation we find that is quite improbable
to generate such light composite scalar.Comment: 24 pages, 5 figures, discussion extended, references added; version
to appear in Phys. Rev.
Soft Pomerons and the Forward LHC Data
Recent data from LHC13 by the TOTEM Collaboration on and
have indicated disagreement with all the Pomeron model predictions by
the COMPETE Collaboration (2002). On the other hand, as recently demonstrated
by Martynov and Nicolescu (MN), the new datum and the unexpected
decrease in the value are well described by the maximal Odderon
dominance at the highest energies. Here, we discuss the applicability of
Pomeron dominance through fits to the \textit{most complete set} of forward
data from and scattering. We consider an analytic
parametrization for consisting of non-degenerated Regge
trajectories for even and odd amplitudes (as in the MN analysis) and two
Pomeron components associated with double and triple poles in the complex
angular momentum plane. The parameter is analytically determined by
means of dispersion relations. We carry out fits to and data on
and in the interval 5 GeV - 13 TeV (as in the MN
analysis). Two novel aspects of our analysis are: (1) the dataset comprises all
the accelerator data below 7 TeV and we consider \textit{three independent
ensembles} by adding: either only the TOTEM data (as in the MN analysis), or
only the ATLAS data, or both sets; (2) in the data reductions to each ensemble,
uncertainty regions are evaluated through error propagation from the fit
parameters, with 90 \% CL. We argument that, within the uncertainties, this
analytic model corresponding to soft Pomeron dominance, does not seem to be
excluded by the \textit{complete} set of experimental data presently available.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures, 1 table. Two paragraphs and four references
added. Accepted for publication in Phys. Lett.
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