xviii, 124 p. : ill. (some col.) / This dissertation discusses three topics on scenarios beyond the Standard Model. Topic one is the effects from a fourth generation of quarks and leptons on electroweak baryogenesis in the early universe. The Standard Model is incapable of electroweak baryogenesis due to an insufficiently strong enough electroweak phase transition (EWPT) as well as insufficient CP violation. We show that the presence of heavy fourth generation fermions solves the first problem but requires additional bosons to be included to stabilize the electroweak vacuum. Introducing supersymmetric partners of the heavy fermions, we find that the EWPT can be made strong enough and new sources of CP violation are present. Topic two relates to the lepton avor problem in supersymmetry. In the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM), the off-diagonal elements in the slepton mass matrix must be suppressed at the 10-3 level to avoid experimental bounds from lepton avor changing processes. This dissertation shows that an enlarged R-parity can alleviate the lepton avor problem. An analysis of all sensitive parameters was performed in the mass range below 1 TeV, and we find that slepton maximal mixing is possible without violating bounds from the lepton avor changing processes: μ [arrow right] eγ; μ [arrow right] e conversion, and μ [arrow right] 3e. Topic three is the collider phenomenology of quirky dark matter. In this model, quirks are particles that are gauged under the electroweak group, as well as a \dark" color SU (2) group. The hadronization scale of this color group is well below the quirk masses. As a result, the dark color strings never break. Quirk and anti-quirk pairs can be produced at the LHC. Once produced, they immediately form a bound state of high angular momentum. The quirk pair rapidly shed angular momentum by emitting soft radiation before they annihilate into observable signals. This dissertation presents the decay branching ratios of quirkonia where quirks obtain their masses through electroweak symmetry breaking. This dissertation includes previously published and unpublished co-authored material. / Committee in charge: Dr. Davison Soper: Chair; Dr. Graham Kribs: Advisor; Dr. Ray Frey: Member; Dr. Michael Kellman: Outside Member

O objetivo deste trabalho é estudar a ocorrência de mudanças de regime típicas de comportamentos em sistemas complexos, em particular no contexto de sistemas dinâmicos aplicados. Para isso, desenvolvemos um modelo matemático que representa a interação entre uma cultura de ostras utilizadas para consumo humano e os processos de eutrofização e biorremediação do ecossistema que as contém. As interações entre as populações de ostras e do fitoplâncton entre si e com a matéria suspensa, subproduto das relações entre os componentes do meio e seu processo de eutrofização, alteram os níveis de oxigenação e a consequente qualidade da ´agua devido `a realização de maior ou menor quantidade de fotossíntese pelas vegetações mais profundas do meio. Neste trabalho propomos um sistema dinâmico de três variáveis para modelar esse sistema e analisamos seus pontos de equilíbrio usando duas técnicas, método de Quirk-Ruppert e os critérios de Routh-Hurwitz, além de resolvê-lo numericamente para um conjunto de parâmetros realísticos (fenomenológicos) obtidos a partir da literatura especializada. Nossos resultados indicam que o limite de extração diária de ostras que pode ser realizado sem levar a cultura ao colapso gira em torno de 4.8% da população / The objective of this work is to study the occurrence of regime shifts that are typical in the behavior of complex systems, in particular in the context of applied dynamical systems. Accordingly, we have developed a mathematical model that represents the interaction between a culture of oysters used for human consumption and the eutrophication and bioremediation processes of the ecosystem containing the culture. The interactions between the oyster populations and the phytoplankton between themselves and with the suspended matter, that appears as a by-product of the relationship between the components of the medium and its eutrophication process, change the oxygenation levels and the resulting water quality due to the realization of a greater or lesser amount of photosynthesis by the vegetation of the deeper levels. In this paper we propose a dynamical system of three variables to model the system and analyze its points of equilibrium using two techniques, the Quirk-Ruppert method and the Routh-Hurwitz criteria, besides solving the equations numerically for a realistic phenomenological) set of parameters obtained from the literature. Our results indicate that the daily extraction threshold that can be achieved without collapsing the culture of oysters amounts to approximately 4.8% of the total population

O objetivo deste trabalho é estudar a ocorrência de mudanças de regime típicas de comportamentos em sistemas complexos, em particular no contexto de sistemas dinâmicos aplicados. Para isso, desenvolvemos um modelo matemático que representa a interação entre uma cultura de ostras utilizadas para consumo humano e os processos de eutrofização e biorremediação do ecossistema que as contém. As interações entre as populações de ostras e do fitoplâncton entre si e com a matéria suspensa, subproduto das relações entre os componentes do meio e seu processo de eutrofização, alteram os níveis de oxigenação e a consequente qualidade da ´agua devido `a realização de maior ou menor quantidade de fotossíntese pelas vegetações mais profundas do meio. Neste trabalho propomos um sistema dinâmico de três variáveis para modelar esse sistema e analisamos seus pontos de equilíbrio usando duas técnicas, método de Quirk-Ruppert e os critérios de Routh-Hurwitz, além de resolvê-lo numericamente para um conjunto de parâmetros realísticos (fenomenológicos) obtidos a partir da literatura especializada. Nossos resultados indicam que o limite de extração diária de ostras que pode ser realizado sem levar a cultura ao colapso gira em torno de 4.8% da população / The objective of this work is to study the occurrence of regime shifts that are typical in the behavior of complex systems, in particular in the context of applied dynamical systems. Accordingly, we have developed a mathematical model that represents the interaction between a culture of oysters used for human consumption and the eutrophication and bioremediation processes of the ecosystem containing the culture. The interactions between the oyster populations and the phytoplankton between themselves and with the suspended matter, that appears as a by-product of the relationship between the components of the medium and its eutrophication process, change the oxygenation levels and the resulting water quality due to the realization of a greater or lesser amount of photosynthesis by the vegetation of the deeper levels. In this paper we propose a dynamical system of three variables to model the system and analyze its points of equilibrium using two techniques, the Quirk-Ruppert method and the Routh-Hurwitz criteria, besides solving the equations numerically for a realistic phenomenological) set of parameters obtained from the literature. Our results indicate that the daily extraction threshold that can be achieved without collapsing the culture of oysters amounts to approximately 4.8% of the total population

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