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

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

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

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

Interleukin (IL)-2 Is a Key Regulator of T Helper 1 and T Helper 2 Cytokine Expression in Fish : Functional Characterization of Two Divergent IL2 Paralogs in Salmonids

This work was funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC, BB/N024052/1) under the Newton Fund RCUK-CONICYT Research Partnerships call. YH was supported by a PhD Studentship from the Ministry of Education, Republic of China (Taiwan). EW was supported financially by the Faculty of Technology, Mahasarakham University Grant Year 2018. FL was supported by a Newton International Fellowship funded by the Academy of Medical Sciences, UK (AMS, NIF004\1036). ML and QX were supported financially by the National Scholarship Council of China. This work was partially supported financially by European Commission contract No. 311993 (TargetFish).Peer reviewedPublisher PD

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