126 research outputs found
Numerical wave propagation for the triangular - finite element pair
Inertia-gravity mode and Rossby mode dispersion properties are examined for
discretisations of the linearized rotating shallow-water equations using the
- finite element pair on arbitrary triangulations in planar
geometry. A discrete Helmholtz decomposition of the functions in the velocity
space based on potentials taken from the pressure space is used to provide a
complete description of the numerical wave propagation for the discretised
equations. In the -plane case, this decomposition is used to obtain
decoupled equations for the geostrophic modes, the inertia-gravity modes, and
the inertial oscillations. As has been noticed previously, the geostrophic
modes are steady. The Helmholtz decomposition is used to show that the
resulting inertia-gravity wave equation is third-order accurate in space. In
general the \pdgp finite element pair is second-order accurate, so this leads
to very accurate wave propagation. It is further shown that the only spurious
modes supported by this discretisation are spurious inertial oscillations which
have frequency , and which do not propagate. The Helmholtz decomposition
also allows a simple derivation of the quasi-geostrophic limit of the
discretised - equations in the -plane case, resulting in a
Rossby wave equation which is also third-order accurate.Comment: Revised version prior to final journal submissio
Neutral Higgs bosons in the MNMSSM with explicit CP violation
Within the framework of the minimal non-minimal supersymmetric standard model
(MNMSSM) with tadpole terms, CP violation effects in the Higgs sector are
investigated at the one-loop level, where the radiative corrections from the
loops of the quark and squarks of the third generation are taken into account.
Assuming that the squark masses are not degenerate, the radiative corrections
due to the stop and sbottom quarks give rise to CP phases, which trigger the CP
violation explicitly in the Higgs sector of the MNMSSM. The masses, the
branching ratios for dominant decay channels, and the total decay widths of the
five neutral Higgs bosons in the MNMSSM are calculated in the presence of the
explicit CP violation. The dependence of these quantities on the CP phases is
quite recognizable, for given parameter values.Comment: 25 pages, 8 figure
Explicit CP violation in the Dine-Seiberg-Thomas model
The possibility of explicit CP violation is studied in a supersymmetric model
proposed by Dine, Seiberg, and Thomas, with two effective dimension-five
operators. The explicit CP violation may be triggered by complex phases in the
coefficients for the dimension-five operators in the Higgs potential, and by a
complex phase in the scalar top quark masses. Although the scenario of explicit
CP violation is found to be inconsistent with the experimental data at LEP2 at
the tree level, it may be possible at the one-loop level. For a reasonable
parameter space, the masses of the neutral Higgs bosons and their couplings to
a pair of bosons are consistent with the LEP2 data, at the one-loop level.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure
Neutral Higgs sector of the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model with explicit CP violation
The neutral Higgs sector of the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model
(NMSSM) with explicit CP violation is investigated at the 1-loop level, using
the effective potential method; not only the loops involving the third
generation of quarks and scalar quarks, but also the loops involving boson,
charged Higgs boson, and chargino are taken into account. It is found that for
some parameter values of the NMSSM the contributions from the boson,
charged Higgs boson, and chargino loops may modify the masses of the neutral
Higgs bosons and the mixings among them significantly, depending on the CP
phase. In collisions, the prospects for discovering neutral Higgs
bosons are investigated within the context of the NMSSM with explicit CP
violation when the dominant component of the lightest neutral Higgs boson is
the Higgs singlet field of the NMSSM.Comment: Latex, 23 pages, 6 figure
Charged Higgs boson in the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model with explicit CP violation
The phenomenology of the explicit CP violation in the Higgs sector of the
next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model (NMSSM) is investigated, with
emphasis on the charged Higgs boson. The radiative corrections due to both
quarks and scalar-quarks of the third generation are taken into account, and
the negative result of the search for the Higgs bosons at CERN LEP2, with the
discovery limit of 0.1 pb, is imposed as a constraint. It is found that there
are parameter regions of the NMSSM where the lightest neutral Higgs boson may
even be massless, without being detected at LEP2. This implies that the LEP2
data do not contradict the existence of a massless neutral Higgs boson in the
NMSSM. For the charged Higgs boson, the radiative corrections to its mass may
be negative in some parameter regions of the NMSSM. The phenomenological lower
bound on the radiatively corrected mass of the charged Higgs boson is increased
as the CP violation becomes maximal, i.e., as the CP violating phase becomes
. At the maximal CP violation, its lower bound is about 110 GeV for 5
40. The vacuum expectation value (VEV) of the
neutral Higgs singlet is shown to be no smaller than 16 GeV for any parameter
values of the NMSSM with explicit CP violation. This value of the lower limit
is found to increase up to about 45 GeV as the ratio () of the VEVs
of the two Higgs doublets decreases to smaller values ( 2). The discovery
limit of the Higgs boson search at LEP2 is found to cover about a half of the
kinematically allowed part of the whole parameter space of the NMSSM, and the
portion is roughly stable against the CP violating phase.Comment: Latex, 24 pages, 6 figure
Possibility of spontaneous CP violation in the nonminimal supersymmetric standard model with two neutral Higgs singlets
A supersymmetric standard model with two Higgs doublets and two Higgs
singlets is investigated if it can accommodate the possibility of spontaneous
CP violation. Assuming the degeneracy of the scalar quark masses of the third
generation, we find that spontaneous CP violation in the Higgs sector is viable
in our model. In the case of spontaneous CP violation, the masses of the
lightest two neutral Higgs bosons are estimated to be 80 and 125 GeV for some
parameter values in our model, which, are consistent with LEP2 data.Comment: 18 pages, 3figure
The Electroweak Phase Transition on Orbifolds with Gauge-Higgs Unification
The dynamics of five dimensional Wilson line phases at finite temperature is
studied in the one-loop approximation. We show that at temperatures of order T
\sim 1/L, where L is the length of the compact space, the gauge symmetry is
always restored and the electroweak phase transition appears to be of first
order.
Particular attention is devoted to the study of a recently proposed five
dimensional orbifold model (on S1/Z2) where the Wilson line phase is identified
with the Higgs field (gauge-Higgs unification). Interestingly enough, an
estimate of the leading higher-loop ``daisy'' (or ``ring'') diagram
contributions to the effective potential in a simple five dimensional model,
seems to suggest that the electroweak phase transition can be studied in
perturbation theory even for Higgs masses above the current experimental limit
of 114 GeV. The transition is still of first order for such values of the Higgs
mass. If large localized gauge kinetic terms are present, the transition might
be strong enough to give baryogenesis at the electroweak transition.Comment: 35 pages, 34 figures; v2: discussion on higher loop contributions
improved, two figures added, minor correction
Human C-reactive protein aggravates osteoarthritis development in mice on a high-fat diet
Objective: C-reactive protein (CRP) levels can be elevated in osteoarthritis (OA) patients. In addition to indicating systemic inflammation, it is suggested that CRP itself can play a role in OA development. Obesity and metabolic syndrome are important risk factors for OA and also induce elevated CRP levels. Here we evaluated in a human CRP (hCRP)-transgenic mouse model whether CRP itself contributes to the development of âmetabolicâ OA.Design: Metabolic OA was induced by feeding 12-week-old hCRP-transgenic males (hCRP-tg, n = 30) and wild-type littermates (n = 15) a 45 kcal% high-fat diet (HFD) for 38 weeks. Cartilage degradation, osteophytes and synovitis were graded on Safranin O-stained histological knee joint sections. Inflammatory status was assessed by plasma lipid profiling, flow cytometric analyses of blood immune cell populations and immunohistochemical staining of synovial macrophage subsets.Results: Male hCRP-tg mice showed aggravated OA severity and increased osteophytosis compared with their wild-type littermates. Both classical and non-classical monocytes showed increased expression of CCR2 and CD86 in hCRP-tg males. HFD-induced effects were evident for nearly all lipids measured and indicated a similar low-grade systemic inflammation for both genotypes. Synovitis scores and synovial macrophage subsets were similar in the two groups.Conclusions: Human CRP expression in a background of HFD-induced metabolic dysfunction resulted in the aggravation of OA through increased cartilage degeneration and osteophytosis. Increased recruitment of classical and non-classical monocytes might be a mechanism of action through which CRP is involved in aggravating this process. These findings suggest interventions selectively directed against CRP activity could ameliorate metabolic OA development
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