Career
- 2021-present: Stephen Hawking Fellow, University of Cambridge
- 2018-2021: Research Fellow (Emmanuel College), University of Cambridge
Research
Scott is a member of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics High Energy Physics research group.
His current research interests include various aspects of quantum field theory, in particular effective field theories and their application to problems in gravity and cosmology.
Selected Publications
- T. Grall and S. Melville, ``Inflation in Motion: Unitarity constraints in EFTs with spontaneously broken boosts,'' JCAP 09 (2020) 017 [arXiv:2005.02366]
- A.-C. Davis and S.Melville, ``Novel Screening with Two Bodies: Summing the Ladder in Disformal Scalar-Tensor Theories'', JCAP 09 (2020) 013 [arXiv:1910.08831]
- S. Melville and J. Noller, ``Positivity in the Sky: Constraining dark energy and modified gravity from the UV''. Phys.Rev.D 101 (2020) 2 [arXiv:1904.05874]
- C. de Rham and S. Melville, ``Gravitational Rainbows: LIGO and Dark Energy at its Cutoff'', 2018 [arXiv:1806.09417]
- C. de Rham, S. Melville, A. Tolley and S.-Y. Zhou, ``UV Complete Me: Positivity Bounds for Particles with Spin'', 2017 [arXiv:1706.02712]
See complete list of publications here (note that authors are always listed alphabetically).
Publications
On the time evolution of cosmological correlators
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2021)
2021,
12
(doi: 10.1007/JHEP02(2021)012)
Quantum corrections to generic branes: DBI, NLSM, and more
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2021)
2021,
159
(doi: 10.1007/JHEP01(2021)159)
Inflation in motion: unitarity constraints in effective field theories with (spontaneously) broken Lorentz symmetry
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2020)
2020,
017
Novel screening with two bodies: Summing the ladder in disformal scalar-tensor theories
– Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
(2020)
2020,
013
Positivity in the Sky: Constraining dark energy and modified gravity from the UV (vol 101, 021502, 2020)
– Physical Review D
(2020)
102,
049902
(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.102.049902)
UV constraints on massive spinning particles: lessons from the gravitino
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2020)
2020,
185
(doi: 10.1007/jhep02(2020)185)
Positivity in the Sky: Constraining dark energy and modified gravity from the UV
– Physical Review D
(2020)
101,
021502
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.101.021502)
Positivity Bounds for Massive Spin-1 and Spin-2 Fields
– J. High Energ. Phys. (2019) 2019: 182
(2019)
2019,
182
(doi: 10.1007/JHEP03(2019)182)
An anomaly-free atlas: charting the space of flavour-dependent gauged U(1) extensions of the Standard Model
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2019)
2019,
82
(doi: 10.1007/jhep02(2019)082)
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