Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar

About: Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar is a education organization based out in Bhubaneswar, India. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Large Hadron Collider & Computer science. The organization has 1185 authors who have published 3132 publications receiving 48832 citations.

Study of $\pi^0$ pair production in single-tag two-photon collisions

Abstract: We report a measurement of the differential cross section of pi(0) pair production in single-tag two-photon collisions, gamma*gamma -> pi(0) pi(0), in e(+) e(-) scattering. The cross section is measured for Q(2) up to 30 GeV2, where Q(2) is the negative of the invariant mass squared of the tagged photon, in the kinematic range 0.5 GeV < W < 2.1 GeV and vertical bar cos theta*vertical bar < 1.0 for the total energy and pion scattering angle, respectively, in the gamma*gamma center-of-mass system. The results are based on a data sample of 759 fb(-1) collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e(+) e(-) collider. The transition form factor of the f(0)(980) and that of the f(2)(1270) with the helicity-0, -1, and -2 components separately are measured for the first time and are compared with theoretical calculations.

Search for decays of stopped exotic long-lived particles produced in proton-proton collisions at ?s=13 TeV

Abstract: A search is presented for the decays of heavy exotic long-lived particles (LLPs) that are produced in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV at the CERN LHC and come to rest in the CMS detector. Their decays would be visible during periods of time well separated from proton-proton collisions. Two decay scenarios of stopped LLPs are explored: a hadronic decay detected in the calorimeter and a decay into muons detected in the muon system. The calorimeter (muon) search covers a period of sensitivity totaling 721 (744) hours in 38.6 (39.0) fb−1 of data collected by the CMS detector in 2015 and 2016. The results are interpreted in several scenarios that predict LLPs. Production cross section limits are set as a function of the mean proper lifetime and the mass of the LLPs, for lifetimes between 100 ns and 10 days. These are the most stringent limits to date on the mass of hadronically decaying stopped LLPs, and this is the first search at the LHC for stopped LLPs that decay to muons.

Robust retinal blood vessel segmentation using hybrid active contour model

Abstract: In the present scenario, retinal image processing is toiling hard to get an efficient algorithm for de-noising and segmenting the blood vessel confined inside the closed curvature boundary. On this ground, this study presents a hybrid active contour model with a novel preprocessing technique to segment the retinal blood vessel in different fundus images. Contour driven black top-hat transformation and phase-based binarisation method have been implemented to preserve the edge and corner details of the vessels. In the proposed work, gradient vector flow (GVF)-based snake and balloon method are combined to achieve better accuracy over different existing active contour models. In the earlier active contour models, the snake cannot enter inside the closed curvature resulting loss of tiny blood vessels. To circumvent this problem, an inflation term F inf(balloon) with GVF-based snake is incorporated together to achieve the new internal energy of snake for effective vessel segmentation. The evaluation parameters are calculated over four publically available databases: STARE, DRIVE, CHASE, and VAMPIRE. The proposed model outperforms its competitors by calculating a wide range of proven parameters to prove its robustness. The proposed method achieves an accuracy of 0.97 for DRIVE & CHASE and 0.96 for STARE & VAMPIRE datasets.