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.

Search for electroweak production of a vector-like T quark using fully hadronic final states

Abstract: A search is performed for electroweak production of a vector-like top quark partner T of charge 2/3 in association with a top or bottom quark, using proton-proton collision data at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 13 TeV collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2016. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb−1. The search targets T quarks over a wide range of masses and fractional widths, decaying to a top quark and either a Higgs boson or a Z boson in fully hadronic final states. The search is performed using two experimentally distinct signatures that depend on whether or not each quark from the decays of the top quark, Higgs boson, or Z boson produces an individual resolved jet. Jet substructure, b tagging, and kinematic variables are used to identify the top quark and boson jets, and also to suppress the standard model backgrounds. The data are found to be consistent with the expected backgrounds. Upper limits at 95% confidence level are set on the cross sections for T quark-mediated production of tHQq, tZQq, and their sum, where Q is the associated top or bottom heavy quark and q is another associated quark. The limits are given for each search signature for various T quark widths up to 30% of the T quark mass, and are between 2 pb and 20 fb for T quark masses in the range 0.6–2.6 TeV. These results are significantly more sensitive than prior searches for electroweak single production of T → tH and represent the first constraints on T → tZ using hadronic decays of the Z boson with this production mode.

Response surface modelling and application of fuzzy grey relational analysis to optimise the multi response characteristics of EN-19 machined using powder mixed EDM

Abstract: In the present manuscript, authors have made an attempt to find the effect of aluminium powder on the electric discharge machining (EDM) of EN-19 alloy steel. Brass metal is used as electrode mater...

Sculpting Artificial Edges in Monolayer MoS2 for Controlled Formation of Surface-Enhanced Raman Hotspots.

Abstract: Hotspot engineering has the potential to transform the field of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) by enabling ultrasensitive and reproducible detection of analytes. However, the ability to controllably generate SERS hotspots, with desired location and geometry, over large-area substrates, has remained elusive. In this study, we sculpt artificial edges in monolayer molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) by low-power focused laser-cutting. We find that when gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are deposited on MoS2 by drop-casting, the AuNPs tend to accumulate predominantly along the artificial edges. First-principles density functional theory (DFT) calculations indicate strong binding of AuNPs with the artificial edges due to dangling bonds that are ubiquitous on the unpassivated (laser-cut) edges. The dense accumulation of AuNPs along the artificial edges intensifies plasmonic effects in these regions, creating hotspots exclusively along the artificial edges. DFT further indicates that adsorption of AuNPs along the artificial edges prompts a transition from semiconducting to metallic behavior, which can further intensify the plasmonic effect along the artificial edges. These effects are observed exclusively for the sculpted (i.e., cut) edges and not observed for the MoS2 surface (away from the cut edges) or along the natural (passivated) edges of the MoS2 sheet. To demonstrate the practical utility of this concept, we use our substrate to detect Rhodamine B (RhB) with a large SERS enhancement (∼104) at the hotspots for RhB concentrations as low as ∼10-10 M. The single-step laser-etching process reported here can be used to controllably generate arrays of SERS hotspots. As such, this concept offers several advantages over previously reported SERS substrates that rely on electrochemical deposition, e-beam lithography, nanoimprinting, or photolithography. Whereas we have focused our study on MoS2, this concept could, in principle, be extended to a variety of 2D material platforms.

Effect of cenosphere on mechanical properties of bamboo–epoxy composites

Abstract: Cenosphere is a ceramic-rich industrial waste produced during burning of coal in thermal power plants This study deals with the effect of cenosphere as particulate filler on mechanical behaviour of natural fibre composites The natural fibre composite consists of bamboo fibre as reinforcement and epoxy as matrix The bamboo fibre is treated with alkali to improve its surface properties The conventional hand lay-up technique is used to prepare different composite specimens Twenty numbers of different composite specimens are prepared with varying number of laminae and filler content The samples are analysed for their mechanical properties to establish the effect of varying filler content and the number of laminae It is found that the mechanical properties are significantly influenced by addition of this waste-based ceramic filler

High-Energy-Density Supercapacitors Based on Patronite/Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes/Reduced Graphene Oxide Hybrids

Abstract: The facile hydrothermal synthesis of a patronite VS4/single-walled carbon nanotube/reduced graphene oxide hybrid is reported. Detailed electrochemical investigations of the hybrid revealed an exceptionally high energy density of ca. 174 W h/kg. A comparison of this value with those of other supercapacitor electrodes based on metal sulfides and also some with high energy-density values revealed the potential of the patronite hybrid as a fitting candidate for possible application in energy-storage devices. Charge–discharge stability measurements showed the excellent specific capacitance of the hybrid, which has a retention capability of ca. 97 % after 1000 continuous charge–discharge cycles.