XXI DAE-BRNS High Energy Physics Symposium: Proceedings, Guwahati, India, December 8 – 12, 2014 (Springer Proceedings in Physics Book 174)

These proceedings gather invited and contributed talks presented at the XXI DAE-BRNS High Energy Physics Symposium, which was held at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati in December 2014. The contributions cover many of the most active research areas in particle physics, namely (i) Electroweak Physics; (ii) QCD and Heavy Ion Physics; (iii) Heavy Flavour Physics and CP Violation; (iv) Neutrino Physics; (v) Astro-particle Physics and Cosmology; (vi) Formal Theory; (vii) Future Colliders and New Machines; and (viii) BSM Physics: SUSY, Extra Dimensions, Composites etc. The DAE-BRNS High Energy Physics Symposium, widely considered to be one of the premiere symposiums organised in India in the field of elementary particle physics, is held every other year and supported by the Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences, Department of Atomic Energy, India. Roughly 250 physicists and researchers participated in the 21 st Symposium, discussing the latest advancements in the field in 18 plenary review talks, 15 invited mini-review talks and approximately 130 contributed presentations. Bringing together the essential content, the book offers a valuable resource for both beginning and advanced researchers in the field. Front Matter....Pages i-xxxvii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Physics in the Light Flavoured Sector....Pages 3-10 Double Parton Scattering Studies via Di-boson Processes Using the CMS Detector at LHC....Pages 11-15 Three-Loop HTLpt Thermodynamics at Finite Temperature and Chemical Potential....Pages 17-21 Charting the Evolution of the Strong Interaction’s Degrees of Freedom....Pages 23-29 Vector Meson Spectral Function and Dilepton Rate in an Effective Mean Field Model....Pages 31-35 Axial-Vector Form Factors in the Chiral Quark Constituent Model....Pages 37-42 Nucleon Structure in AdS/QCD....Pages 43-48 Dual QCD Formulation and Quark-Antiquark Static Potential....Pages 49-54 Infrared Abelian Dominance in a Special Gauge....Pages 55-60 Multiplicity Characteristics of Forward-Backward Emitted Particles in Heavy-Ion Interactions at SPS Energies....Pages 61-66 NICA Project at JINR....Pages 67-73 Quark ACM with Massive Gluon....Pages 75-79 Flavor-Singlet Axial Coupling Constant in the QCD Sum Rule....Pages 81-86 Do the pp Collisions at LHC Energies Form a Collective Medium?....Pages 87-91 Chiral Symmetry Breaking in the Lattice Gross-Neveu Model with the Borici-Creutz Fermion....Pages 93-98 Freeze-Out Conditions in High-Energy Heavy-Ion Experiments....Pages 99-104 Exploring the Proton Spin Structure....Pages 105-113 Bottomonium Suppression at LHC Energy Based on the Temperature Dependent Formation Time....Pages 115-122 A Study of Multiplicity Scaling in Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions....Pages 123-127 Front Matter....Pages 129-134 Disintegration of Quarkonia in QGP Due to Time Dependent Potential....Pages 1-1 Strange Hyperon Productions at LHC Energies....Pages 135-139 Study of the Double Parton Scattering via W + 2-Jet Process Using the CMS Detector at LHC....Pages 141-146 Centrality and Energy Dependence of Elliptic Flow of Light Nuclei in STAR....Pages 147-152 Nuclei Production and Two Chemical Freeze-Out Model of High Energy Heavy Ion Collisions....Pages 153-158 Wigner Distributions of the Quark and Gluon in the Light-Front Dressed Quark Model....Pages 159-163 Strangeness Production in U+U Collisions at RHIC....Pages 165-169 Temperature and Multiplicity Fluctuations as a New Tool of Characterization for Heavy Ion Collisions at LHC Energy....Pages 171-175 Front Matter....Pages 177-181 Testing Violations of CP, CPT and Bose Symmetries via Dalitz Plots and Dalitz Prisms....Pages 183-188 Minimal Set of Texture Specific Quark Mass Matrices....Pages 189-194 Scalar Leptoquarks and the Rare B Meson Decays....Pages 195-195 Exotic Charmonium-Like States from Belle....Pages 197-201 Front Matter....Pages 203-207 Study of Muonless Events at the INO ICAL Detector....Pages 209-214 TeV-Scale Leptogenesis....Pages 215-220 Front Matter....Pages 221-226 CP Violation Study at LBNE in Conjunction with Reactors....Pages 227-235 Phenomenological Analysis of Two Texture Zeros/Vanishing Cofactors of Neutrino Mass Matrices....Pages 237-237 RPC Electrode Characterisation and Performance Studies with Different Gas Compositions....Pages 239-243 Oscillation Studies with Upward-Going Muons Using INO-ICAL....Pages 245-253 R&D on Sub-keV Ge-Detectors for Studies on Electromagnetic Properties of Neutrino....Pages 255-260 Neutrino Mass Matrices with Two Texture Zeros and Near Maximal Atmospheric Neutrino Mixing....Pages 261-266 Exploring Texture Two-Zero Majorana Neutrino Mass Matrices with the Latest Neutrino Oscillation Data....Pages 237-237 Atmospheric Neutrino Flux....Pages 267-272 Neutrino-Nucleon Cross Section in Ultra High Energy Regime....Pages 273-277 Constrained Analytical Interrelations in Neutrino Mixing....Pages 279-286 High Scale Unification of CKM and PMNS Mixing Matrices....Pages 287-291 Glass RPC and Its Electrode Characterization....Pages 293-297 Particle Production Measurements Using the MIPP Detector at Fermilab....Pages 299-304 Is It All in a Perturbation?....Pages 305-310 Front Matter....Pages 311-315 Predicting Leptonic CP Phase by Considering Deviations in Charged Lepton and Neutrino Sectors....Pages 317-322 Front Matter....Pages 323-327 Primordial Generation of Magnetic Fields....Pages 329-337 Probing Dynamics of Phase Transitions Occurring Inside a Pulsar....Pages 339-344 Analysis of Lateral Distribution of Cherenkov Photons Associated with an EAS....Pages 345-351 Explaining Muon Magnetic Moment and AMS-02 Positron Excess in a Gauged Horizontal Symmetric Model....Pages 353-361 Angular Distributions of Cherenkov Photons in Extensive Air Showers of Gamma and Proton Primaries....Pages 363-368 Design of a Small Cosmic Ray Air Shower Array to Study Atmospheric Effects....Pages 369-375 P Type Point Contact Germanium Detector for Dark Matter Search....Pages 377-382 Inflation After Planck and BICEP2....Pages 383-387 Resonant Gravitino Production in the Early Universe....Pages 389-393 Dark Matter in SM4 and Its Implications in LFV Decays....Pages 395-400 Synchrotron Radiation from Instabilities in the Early Universe....Pages 237-237 Muon Tomography for Carbon Storage and Monitoring....Pages 401-406 Consequences of Holographic Scalar Field Dark Energy Models in Chameleon Brans-Dicke Cosmology....Pages 407-407 Galactic Center Gamma-Ray Excess and Higgs-Portal Dark Matter....Pages 409-413 Front Matter....Pages 415-419 Spectral Dimension of Kappa Space-Time....Pages 421-425 Exact Background Solution for Matter Coupled Higher Derivative Gravity....Pages 427-432 Front Matter....Pages 433-437 Effect of Geometrical Artifacts on the Response of INO-ICAL RPC....Pages 439-445 Front Matter....Pages 447-452 Building of a Bakelite Resistive Plate Chamber Prototype....Pages 453-461 Development of Silicon Pad and Strip Detectors in High Energy Physics....Pages 463-466 Study of Performance of Bakelite Resistive Pate Chamber (RPC)....Pages 467-472 Assembly and Characterization of Resistive Plate Chambers in India for the CMS Detector....Pages 473-477 Delay and Offset Calibration Schemes for the INO ICAL Electronics....Pages 479-485 Soft-Core Processor Based Data Acquisition Module for ICAL RPCs with Network Interface....Pages 487-492 Study of the Spin-Parity of a Resonance via the Gold-Plated Decay Mode....Pages 493-497 Study of Photon Detection Efficiency and Position Resolution of BESIII Electromagnetic Calorimeter....Pages 499-499 Front Matter....Pages 501-506 Tau Reconstruction and Identification with Upgraded CMS Detector at LHC....Pages 507-512 Front Matter....Pages 513-517 Mass Determination and Event Reconstruction at Large Hadron Collider....Pages 519-523 Masses of Physical Scalars in Two Higgs Doublet Models....Pages 525-525 Identification of Type-III Seesaw Fermionic Triplet at the International Linear Collider....Pages 527-533 Higgs Sector of NMSSM in the Light of Higgs Discovery....Pages 525-525 Influence of Anomalous VVh and VVhh on Determination of Higgs Self-coupling....Pages 535-539 Beyond Standard Model Higgs Boson Physics at the CMS Experiment....Pages 541-546 Electroweak Symmetry Breaking via Strong Dynamics in the Precision Higgs Era: Extra Dimension and Composite Higgs....Pages 547-551 Front Matter....Pages 553-557 Back Matter....Pages 559-564 ....Pages 565-570 These proceedings gather invited and contributed talks presented at the XXI DAE-BRNS High Energy Physics Symposium, which was held at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati in December 2014. The contributions cover℗lmany of the℗lmost active research areas in particle physics, namely (i) Electroweak Physics; (ii) QCD and℗lHeavy Ion Physics; (iii) Heavy Flavour Physics and CP Violation; (iv) Neutrino Physics; (v)℗lAstro-particle Physics and Cosmology; (vi) Formal Theory; (vii) Future Colliders and New℗lMachines; and (viii) BSM Physics : SUSY, Extra Dimensions, Composites etc. The DAE-BRNS High Energy Physics Symposium, ℗lwidely considered to be one of the℗lpremiere symposiums organised in India in the field of elementary particle physics, ℗lis held every℗lother year and supported by the Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences, ℗lDepartment of Atomic Energy, India.℗lRoughly 250 physicists and researchers participated in the 21st Symposium, discussing the latest advancements in the field in 18 plenary review talks, 15 invited mini-review talks and approximately℗l130 contributed presentations. Bringing together the essential content, the book offers a valuable resource for both beginning and advanced researchers in the field