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.

Measurement of the groomed jet mass in PbPb and pp collisions at √sNN=5.02 TeV

Abstract: A measurement of the groomed jet mass in PbPb and pp collisions at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of 5.02 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC is presented. Jet grooming is a recursive procedure which sequentially removes soft constituents of a jet until a pair of hard subjets is found. The resulting groomed jets can be used to study modifications to the parton shower evolution in the presence of the hot and dense medium created in heavy ion collisions. Predictions of groomed jet properties from the pythia and herwig++ event generators agree with the measurements in pp collisions. When comparing the results from the most central PbPb collisions to pp data, a hint of an increase of jets with large jet mass is observed, which could originate from additional medium-induced radiation at a large angle from the jet axis. However, no modification of the groomed mass of the core of the jet is observed for all PbPb centrality classes. The PbPb results are also compared to predictions from the jewel and q-pythia event generators, which predict a large modification of the groomed mass not observed in the data.

Enhanced photocatalytic performance of vertically grown ZnO nanorods decorated with metals (Al, Ag, Au, and Au-Pd) for degradation of industrial dye

Abstract: In this work we have fabricated vertically grown novel rod type nanostructures of zinc oxide on a silicon substrate which are decorated with metals (Al, Ag, Au, and Au–Pd) using sputtering technique. These structures have been utilized in remediation of industrial dyes through solar light photo-catalysis with enhanced efficacy. The obtained structures have been thoroughly characterized using x-ray diffraction (XRD), field-emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM), and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) analysis etc. The decorating elements have been compared for the photo-catalytic performance relative to the pristine zinc oxide structures and they are found to act as electron sink for the electrons generated by redox reaction on the surface of the ZnO nanostructure. This is attributed as a main reason for increasing the photocatalytic yield by the decorated structures. Approximately 20–45 % (maximum in case of Au–Pd and minimum in case of Ag) enhancement in dye degradation (concentration basis) was achieved by decoration of metals in comparison with undecorated ZnO nanorod. A theoretical model comprising of governing equations associated with the mechanism of the catalysis process was developed for proper understanding of the experimental data.