Pramod Kumar Rout

Central Institute for Research on Goats · Division of Genetics and Breeding

This invention is a polyherbal formulation for strengthening the humoral immunity of goats, particularly pregnant females to counteract the immunosuppressive phase of the periparturient period. It also envisages improving the immune quality of the colostrum of such animals by increasing the concentration of immunoglobulin G in the colostrum thereby...

Various direct and indirect environmental constraints have an impact on livestock performance. The physiological parameters, such as rectal temperature, heart rate, and respiratory rate, are the primary indicators of thermal stress. Under a stressed environment temperature humidity index (THI) had established as a vital measurement to identify the...

This study aimed to evaluate the genetic potential of the Jamunapari goat and formulate a selection strategy for improving lactation traits. The data set included 4049 phenotypic records for across parity milk yield at 90 days (MY90), 140 days (MY140), total milk yield (TMY), and lactation length (LL) obtained from the progeny of 83 sires and 1643...

Heat shock proteins regulate the physiological mechanism of heat stress adaptation at cellular level. The present investigation was carried out to analyse the HSP70 gene regulation in various growth stage in ruminants in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs). The relationship between HSP gene expression and thermotolerance in age-specific mann...

A genetic study of sexual size dimorphism (SSD) in Jamunapari goats was carried out to identify differences between sexes in genetic control of body weight at birth and at 3 (weaning), 6, 9 and 12 months of age. A total of 6,687 kids out of 264 sires and 1,704 dams were used in the study. Estimates of SSD were derived from male:female body weight r...

Goat breeds have been evolved in different environments to fulfill the requirements of local communities. The present study was carried out to analyse the relationship between geography, climate, milk composition variables and milk-protein genotypes in 17 breeds/genotypes of different agro-climatic conditions. A total of 18 different alleles were o...

The current study sought to identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the leptin gene and investigate their relationship with growth traits in goats. Phenotypic data for birth weight (BW), weaning weight (WW), body weight at six month (6MW), body weight at nine month (9MW) and body weight at twelve month (12MW) from Jamunapari goats were r...

This study aims to evaluate the genetic potential of the Jamunapari goat and formulate a new selection strategy for improving the lactation traits. The data set included 4049 phenotypic records for lifetime milk yield at 90 days (MY90) and 140 days (MY140), total milk yield (TMY), and lactation length (LL) obtained from the progeny of 83 sires and...

The objective of the study was to plot the trajectory of the growth curve in Jamunapari goat using B-spline (BS) function and compare it with the Legendre polynomial (LP) function of the random regression model (RRM) and also to assess the genotype and environment interaction for growth traits. The data was collected from 8763 descendants of 1845 d...

There is growing interest in goat milk and its derivatives, whose quality is essential in light of contemporary dietary trends favouring healthy eating. Goat milk is used in nutraceutical and infant food products for various reasons, including its hypoallergenic properties. Casein gene variation influences milk content and the chemical, physical, a...

Production cross sections of the Higgs boson are measured in the H→ZZ→4ℓ (ℓ = e,μ) decay channel. A data sample of proton–proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, collected by the CMS detector at the LHC and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb⁻¹ is used. The signal strength modifier μ, defined as the ratio of the Higg...

A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-08562-y

A bstract We present the first study of charged-hadron production associated with jets originating from b quarks in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 5.02 TeV. The data sample used in this study was collected with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 27.4 pb − 1 . To characterize the j...

The performance is presented of the reconstruction and identification algorithms for electrons and photons with the CMS experiment at the LHC. The reported results are based on proton-proton collision data collected at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV and recorded in 2016–2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 136 fb⁻¹. Results obtaine...

The second-order Fourier coefficients (v2) characterizing the azimuthal distributions of and mesons produced in PbPb collisions at sNN=5.02TeV are studied. The mesons are reconstructed in their dimuon decay channel, as measured by the CMS detector. The collected data set corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 1.7nb−1. The scalar product method...

A bstract A search for phenomena beyond the standard model in final states with two oppositely charged same-flavor leptons and missing transverse momentum is presented. The search uses a data sample of proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ s = 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb − 1 , collected by the CMS experiment at...

A bstract Angular distributions of the decay B ⁺ → K ∗ (892) ⁺ μ ⁺ μ − are studied using events collected with the CMS detector in $$ \sqrt{\mathrm{s}} $$ s = 8 TeV proton-proton collisions at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.0 fb − 1 . The forward-backward asymmetry of the muons and the longitudinal polarization of the K ∗...

This paper presents new sets of parameters (“tunes”) for the underlying-event model of the HERWIG7 event generator. These parameters control the description of multiple-parton interactions (MPI) and colour reconnection in HERWIG7, and are obtained from a fit to minimum-bias data collected by the CMS experiment at √s = 0.9, 7, and 13TeV. The tunes a...

The rate for Higgs (H) bosons production in association with either one (tH) or two (tt¯H) top quarks is measured in final states containing multiple electrons, muons, or tau leptons decaying to hadrons and a neutrino, using proton–proton collisions recorded at a center-of-mass energy of 13Te by the CMS experiment. The analyzed data correspond to a...

The rate for Higgs (H) bosons production in association with either one (tH) or two (ttH) top quarks is measured in final states containing multiple electrons, muons, or tau leptons decaying to hadrons and a neutrino, using proton–proton collisions recorded at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV by the CMS experiment. The analyzed data correspond to...

A measurement is reported of differential top quark pair (tt¯) production cross sections, where top quarks are produced at large transverse momenta. The data collected with the CMS detector at the LHC are from pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb−1. The measurement uses events where...

Goat milk is a source of nutrition in difficult areas and has lesser allerginicity than cow milk. It is leading in the area for nutraceutical formulation and drug development using goat mammary gland as a bioreactor. Post translational modifications of a protein regulate protein function, biological activity, stabilization and interactions. The pro...

The production of Z boson pairs in proton–proton (pp) collisions, pp→(Z/γ∗)(Z/γ∗)→2ℓ2ℓ′, where ℓ,ℓ′=e or μ, is studied at a center-of-mass energy of 13TeV with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 137fb-1, collected during 2016–2018. The ZZ production cross section, σtot(pp→ZZ)=17.4±0.3(stat)±...

The production of Z boson pairs in proton–proton (pp) collisions, pp→(Z/γ∗)(Z/γ∗)→2ℓ2ℓ′, where ℓ,ℓ′ = e or μ, is studied at a center-of-mass energy of 13TeV with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 137fb⁻¹, collected during 2016–2018. The ZZ production cross section, σ_(tot)(pp→ZZ) = 17.4±0.3...

A bstract A search is presented for a Higgs boson that is produced via vector boson fusion and that decays to an undetected particle and an isolated photon. The search is performed by the CMS collaboration at the LHC, using a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 130 fb − 1 , recorded at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV in 2016–201...

A bstract Measurements of the fiducial inclusive and differential production cross sections of the Higgs boson in proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ s = 13 TeV are performed using events where the Higgs boson decays into a pair of W bosons that subsequently decay into a final state with an electron, a muon, and a pair of neutrinos. The anal...

A bstract Events containing one or more top quarks produced with additional prompt leptons are used to search for new physics within the framework of an effective field theory (EFT). The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 41.5 fb − 1 of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV at the LHC, collected by the CMS experi...

The strong Coulomb field created in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions is expected to produce a rapidity-dependent difference (Δv2) in the second Fourier coefficient of the azimuthal distribution (elliptic flow, v2) between D0(u‾c) and D‾0(uc‾) mesons. Motivated by the search for evidence of this field, the CMS detector at the LHC is used to pe...

A bstract A search for nonresonant production of Higgs boson pairs via gluon-gluon and vector boson fusion processes in final states with two bottom quarks and two photons is presented. The search uses data from proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of $$ \sqrt{s} $$ s = 13 TeV recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding...

Measurements of the second Fourier harmonic coefficient (v₂) of the azimuthal distributions of prompt and nonprompt D⁰ mesons produced in pp and pPb collisions are presented. Nonprompt D⁰ mesons come from beauty hadron decays. The data samples are collected by the CMS experiment at nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energies of 13 and 8.16 TeV, respect...

The physics motivation, detector design, triggers, calibration, alignment, simulation, and overall performance of the very forward CASTOR calorimeter of the CMS experiment are reviewed. The CASTOR Cherenkov sampling calorimeter is located very close to the LHC beam line, at a radial distance of about 1 cm from the beam pipe, and at 14.4 m from the...

A bstract Results are reported from a search for the lepton flavor violating decay τ → 3 μ in proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{\mathrm{s}} $$ s = 13 TeV. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 33.2 fb − 1 recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2016. The search exploits τ leptons produced in both W boson and heavy-flavo...

A bstract Evidence for Higgs boson decay to a pair of muons is presented. This result combines searches in four exclusive categories targeting the production of the Higgs boson via gluon fusion, via vector boson fusion, in association with a vector boson, and in association with a top quark-antiquark pair. The analysis is performed using proton-pro...

Cattle were domesticated in Asia and Europe during New Stone Age and domestication occurred 10,000 years ago. Humped cattle were found in tropical countries and Bos taurus cattle were observed in temperate region. Cattle along with buffaloes provide food, fibre, fuel, and draft power to our world. Milk and draft power are the primary products all o...

Livestock production is a key component of world agriculture. Livestock production system directly supports the livelihoods of 600 million smallholder farmers in developing countries [1]. The human civilization is dependent on animal agriculture to fulfill the requirement such as protein, fibre, leather, transport, draft, and manure. The demand for...

The practice of farming, breeding, and slaughter of livestock is known as animal husbandry, which has been practiced worldwide for food and commodities. In due time, the livestock farming practices have been shifted to intensive animal farming, often referred as “Factory farming”. Intensive livestock farming produces various commercial products, bu...

Livestock carries a broad meaning; it is a compound word as “live” and “stock” [1]. The word livestock was first used between 1650 and 1660. The disaster assistance legislation in 1988 defined the term as “cattle, sheep, goat, swine, poultry (egg-producing poultry), equine animals used for food, fish used for food. Livestock is usually defined to r...

Small ruminants are spread all over the world and adapting well to varied agro-ecological regions. Small ruminants are serving the mankind since the dawn of civilization dating to Neolithic Period [1]. It is believed that goat was the first domesticated livestock species to produce edible products for human beings [2]. Small ruminants have proved t...

Mass balance is also known as material balance. It is a practice of accounting for matter entering and leaving into a system which may be helpful in understanding the conservation or steady state of the system under analysis [1]. The exact conservation law used in the analysis of the system depends on the context of the problem but limited to mass...

History of supply chain management is more than a century when it was used to be highly labour intensive, but simple in practice. With the increase in modern transport technology, the concept of supply chain management has been changed with compressive packaging technology, real-time computational network, and cold logistic system with the facility...

Event-by-event long-range correlations of azimuthal anisotropy Fourier coefficients (vn) in 8.16 TeV pPb data, collected by the CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, are extracted using a subevent four-particle cumulant technique applied to very low multiplicity events. Each combination of four charged particles is selected from either...

Jamunapari goat is majestic dual purpose goat adapted to semi-arid climate in India. The aim of the present study was to assess the genetic potential of Jamunapari goat and design breeding program based on growth and feed efficiency traits. A total of 8763 animals descended from 1845 dams and 339 sires between 1982-2019 (37 years) at ICAR-Central I...

A search for dark matter particles is performed using events with a Z boson candidate and large missing transverse momentum. The analysis is based on proton–proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy of 13Te, collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2016–2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137fb-1. The search uses the deca...

A search for dark matter particles is performed using events with a Z boson candidate and large missing transverse momentum. The analysis is based on proton–proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2016–2018, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137fb⁻¹. The search uses the de...

Evidence is presented for the electroweak (EW) production of two jets (jj) in association with two Z bosons and constraints on anomalous quartic gauge couplings are set. The analysis is based on a data sample of proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV collected with the CMS detector in 2016–2018, and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137...

The first measurements of production cross sections of polarized same-sign W±W± boson pairs in proton-proton collisions are reported. The measurements are based on a data sample collected with the CMS detector at the LHC at a center-of-mass energy of 13TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137fb⁻¹. Events are selected by requiring exact...

A search is presented for supersymmetric partners of the top quark (top squarks) in final states with two oppositely charged leptons (electrons or muons), jets identified as originating from bquarks, and missing transverse momentum. The search uses data from proton-proton collisions at s=13TeV collected with the CMS detector, corresponding to an in...

A search is presented for supersymmetric partners of the top quark (top squarks) in final states with two oppositely charged leptons (electrons or muons), jets identified as originating from bquarks, and missing transverse momentum. The search uses data from proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV collected with the CMS detector, corresponding to a...

Antioxidants partially ameliorated the negative effects of reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced during cryopreservation. The objective of the present study was to investigate the effect of reduced glutathione, ascorbic acid and α-tocopherol on the quality of frozen-thawed buck spermatozoa. Ejaculates were collected by artificial vagina from 8 buc...

This book presents a concept for implementing a mass balance approach toward developing an effective eco-friendly, livestock farming system independent of external energy input. In this context it describes a modern, integrated farming system, and includes comprehensive technical information explaining the design and evaluation of manure management...

We present analytical calculations, Finite Element Analysis modelling, and physical measurements of the interstrip capacitances for different potential strip geometries and dimensions of the readout boards for the GE2/1 triple-Gas Electron Multiplier detector in the CMS muon system upgrade. The main goal of the study is to find configurations that...

A search is described for the production of a pair of bottom-type vectorlike quarks (VLQs), each decaying into a b or b¯ quark and either a Higgs or a Z boson, with a mass greater than 1000 GeV. The analysis is based on data from proton-proton collisions at a 13 TeV center-of-mass energy recorded at the CERN LHC, corresponding to a total integrated...

We describe a method to obtain point and dispersion estimates for the energies of jets arising from b quarks produced in proton–proton collisions at an energy of s=13TeV at the CERN LHC. The algorithm is trained on a large sample of simulated b jets and validated on data recorded by the CMS detector in 2017 corresponding to an integrated luminosity...

A first observation is presented for the electroweak production of a W boson, a photon, and two jets in proton-proton collisions. The W boson decays are selected by requiring one identified electron or muon and an imbalance in transverse momentum. The two jets are required to have a high dijet mass and a large separation in pseudorapidity. The meas...

Evidence is presented for the electroweak (EW) production of two jets (jj) in association with two Z bosons and constraints on anomalous quartic gauge couplings are set. The analysis is based on a data sample of proton-proton collisions at s=13TeV collected with the CMS detector in 2016–2018, and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137fb−1...

A bstract A search for standard model Higgs bosons (H) produced with transverse momentum ( p T ) greater than 450 GeV and decaying to bottom quark-antiquark pairs ( $$ \mathrm{b}\overline{\mathrm{b}} $$ b b ¯ ) is performed using proton-proton collision data collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ s = 13 TeV. The data sample co...

A bstract The dependence of inclusive jet production in proton-proton collisions with a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV on the distance parameter R of the anti- k T algorithm is studied using data corresponding to integrated luminosities up to 35.9 fb − 1 collected by the CMS experiment in 2016. The ratios of the inclusive cross sections as functio...

Measurements are presented of the single-diffractive dijet cross section and the diffractive cross section as a function of the proton fractional momentum loss ξ and the four-momentum transfer squared t. Both processes pp → pX and pp → Xp, i.e. with the proton scattering to either side of the interaction point, are measured, where X includes at lea...

The first measurements of production cross sections of polarized same-sign W±W± boson pairs in proton-proton collisions are reported. The measurements are based on a data sample collected with the CMS detector at the LHC at a center-of-mass energy of 13TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137fb−1. Events are selected by requiring exact...

Measurements of the second Fourier harmonic coefficient (v2) of the azimuthal distributions of prompt and nonprompt D⁰ mesons produced in pp and pPb collisions are presented. Nonprompt D⁰ mesons come from beauty hadron decays. The data samples are collected by the CMS experiment at nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energies of 13 and 8.16 TeV, respect...

The dependence of inclusive jet production in proton-proton collisions with a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV on the distance parameter R of the anti-k_T algorithm is studied using data corresponding to integrated luminosities up to 35.9 fb⁻¹ collected by the CMS experiment in 2016. The ratios of the inclusive cross sections as functions of transve...

The differential cross section and charge asymmetry for inclusive W boson production at s=13 TeV is measured for the two transverse polarization states as a function of the W boson absolute rapidity. The measurement uses events in which a W boson decays to a neutrino and either a muon or an electron. The data sample of proton-proton collisions reco...

A measurement of the Higgs boson Yukawa coupling to the top quark is presented using proton-proton collision data at s=13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb−1, recorded with the CMS detector. The coupling strength with respect to the standard model value, Yt, is determined from kinematic distributions in tt¯ final states conta...

Ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions recreate in the laboratory the thermodynamical conditions prevailing in the early universe up to 10−6 sec, thereby allowing the study of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a state of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) matter with deconfined partons. The top quark, the heaviest elementary particle known, is accessible in...

Goat's milk attracts massive attention as it can be a reliable alternative if not a replacement to cow's or mother’s milk. It fulfills nutritional requirement of pregnant mothers, infants and older people in difficult conditions. The present study was carried out in 1362 milk samples of 15 Indian goat breeds/genotypes belonging to different agro-cl...

A bstract The ratios of the production cross sections between the excited ϒ(2S) and ϒ(3S) mesons and the ϒ(1S) ground state, detected via their decay into two muons, are studied as a function of the number of charged particles in the event. The data are from proton-proton collisions at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ s = 7 TeV, corresponding to an integrated lumino...

A measurement of the W⁺W⁻ boson pair production cross section in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV is presented. The data used in this study are collected with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb⁻¹. The W⁺W⁻ candidate events are selected by requiring two oppositely charged leptons (electrons...

The ratios of the B_c(2S)⁺ to B⁺_c, B∗_c(2S)⁺ to B⁺_c, and B∗_c(2S)⁺ to B_c(2S)⁺ production cross sections are measured in proton-proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV, using a data sample collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 143 fb⁻¹. The three measurements are made in the B⁺_c meson phase space regio...

A bstract Decays of the 125 GeV Higgs boson into a Z boson and a ρ ⁰ (770) or ϕ(1020) meson are searched for using proton-proton collision data collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ s = 13 TeV. The analysed data set corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 137 fb − 1 . Events are selected in which the Z boson decays into a...

Heat shock proteins (HSPs), also known as molecular chaperons are prominent stress markers. Heat shock proteins consist of highly conserved protein expressed at the time of stress, and play an important role in adaptation to the environmental stress. Although, the expression pattern of HSP70 gene is species and breed specific, variations in adaptat...

At the start of Run 2 in 2015, the LHC delivered proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. During Run 2 (years 2015–2018) the LHC eventually reached a luminosity of 2.1× 10³⁴ cm⁻²s⁻¹, almost three times that reached during Run 1 (2009–2013) and a factor of two larger than the LHC design value, leading to events with up to a mea...

The CMS muon system in the region with 2.03 < vertical bar eta vertical bar < 2.82 is characterized by a very harsh radiation environment which can generate hit rates up to 144 kHz/cm(2) and an integrated charge of 8 C/cm(2) over ten years of operation. In order to increase the detector performance and acceptance for physics events including muons,...