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Publications: Dr Scott Melville

Melville S, Pimentel GL ( 2024 ) . de Sitter S matrix for the masses . Physical Review D vol. 110 , ( 10 )
Melville S, Pimentel GL ( 2024 ) . A de Sitter S-matrix from amputated cosmological correlators . Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2024 , ( 8 )
Melville S ( 2024 ) . Causality and quasi-normal modes in the GREFT . The European Physical Journal Plus vol. 139 , ( 8 )
Davighi J, Melville S, Mimasu K, You T ( 2024 ) . Positivity and the electroweak hierarchy . Physical Review D vol. 109 , ( 3 )
Salcedo SA, Melville S ( 2023 ) . The cosmological tree theorem . Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2023 , ( 12 )
Davis AC, Melville S ( 2023 ) . Orbital precession and hidden symmetries in scalar-tensor theories . Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics vol. 2023 , ( 11 )
Salcedo SA, Lee MHG, Melville S, Pajer E ( 2023 ) . The Analytic Wavefunction . Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2023 , ( 6 )
Grall T, Melville S ( 2022 ) . Positivity bounds without boosts: New constraints on low energy effective field theories from the UV . Physical Review D vol. 105 , ( 12 )
Melville S, Noller J ( 2022 ) . Positivity bounds from multiple vacua and their cosmological consequences . Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics vol. 2022 , ( 06 )
Davighi J, Melville S, You T ( 2022 ) . Natural selection rules: new positivity bounds for massive spinning particles . Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2022 , ( 2 )
Davis A-C, Melville S ( 2021 ) . Scalar fields near compact objects: resummation versus UV completion . Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics vol. 2021 , ( 11 )
Brax P, Davis A-C, Melville S, Wong LK ( 2021 ) . Spin-orbit effects for compact binaries in scalar-tensor gravity . Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics vol. 2021 , ( 10 )
de Rham C, Melville S, Noller J ( 2021 ) . Positivity bounds on dark energy: when matter matters . Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics vol. 2021 , ( 08 )
Melville S, Pajer E ( 2021 ) . Cosmological Cutting Rules . Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2021 , ( 5 )
Brax P, Davis A-C, Melville S, Wong LK ( 2021 ) . Spin precession as a new window into disformal scalar fields . Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics vol. 2021 , ( 03 )
Céspedes S, Davis A-C, Melville S ( 2021 ) . On the time evolution of cosmological correlators . Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2021 , ( 2 )
Goon G, Melville S, Noller J ( 2021 ) . Quantum corrections to generic branes: DBI, NLSM, and more . Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2021 , ( 1 )
Grall T, Melville S ( 2020 ) . Inflation in motion: unitarity constraints in effective field theories with (spontaneously) broken Lorentz symmetry . Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics vol. 2020 , ( 09 ) 017 - 017 .
Davis A-C, Melville S ( 2020 ) . Novel screening with two bodies: summing the ladder in disformal scalar-tensor theories . Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics vol. 2020 , ( 09 ) 013 - 013 .
Melville S, Noller J ( 2020 ) . Erratum: Positivity in the Sky: Constraining dark energy and modified gravity from the UV [Phys. Rev. D 101, 021502(R) (2020)] . Physical Review D vol. 102 , ( 4 )
Melville S, Roest D, Stefanyszyn D ( 2020 ) . UV constraints on massive spinning particles: lessons from the gravitino . Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2020 , ( 2 )
Melville S, Noller J ( 2020 ) . Positivity in the Sky: Constraining dark energy and modified gravity from the UV . Physical Review D vol. 101 , ( 2 )
Allanach BC, Davighi J, Melville S ( 2019 ) . Erratum: An anomaly-free atlas: charting the space of flavour-dependent gauged U(1) extensions of the Standard Model . Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2019 , ( 8 )
de Rham C, Melville S, Tolley AJ, Zhou S-Y ( 2019 ) . Positivity bounds for massive spin-1 and spin-2 fields . Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2019 , ( 3 )
Allanach BC, Davighi J, Melville S ( 2019 ) . An anomaly-free atlas: charting the space of flavour-dependent gauged U(1) extensions of the Standard Model . Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2019 , ( 2 )
de Rham C, Melville S ( 2018 ) . Gravitational Rainbows: LIGO and Dark Energy at its Cutoff . Physical Review Letters vol. 121 , ( 22 )
de Rham C, Melville S, Tolley AJ ( 2018 ) . Improved positivity bounds and massive gravity . Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2018 , ( 4 )
de Rham C, Melville S, Tolley AJ, Zhou S-Y ( 2018 ) . UV complete me: positivity bounds for particles with spin . Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2018 , ( 3 )
de Rham C, Melville S, Tolley AJ, Zhou S-Y ( 2017 ) . Positivity bounds for scalar field theories . Physical Review D vol. 96 , ( 8 )
de Rham C, Melville S, Tolley AJ, Zhou S-Y ( 2017 ) . Massive Galileon positivity bounds . Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2017 , ( 9 )
de Rham C, Melville S ( 2017 ) . Unitary null energy condition violation in P(X) cosmologies . Physical Review D vol. 95 , ( 12 )
Melville S, Schekochihin AA, Kunz MW ( 2016 ) . Pressure-anisotropy-driven microturbulence and magnetic-field evolution in shearing, collisionless plasma . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society vol. 459 , ( 3 ) 2701 - 2720 .
Melville S, Noller J ( 2016 ) . Generalised matter couplings in massive bigravity . Journal of High Energy Physics vol. 2016 , ( 1 )
Noller J, Melville S ( 2015 ) . The coupling to matter in massive, bi- and multi-gravity . Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics vol. 2015 , ( 01 ) 003 - 003 .
Lerner RN, Melville S ( 2014 ) . Quantifying the `naturalness' of the curvaton model . Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics vol. 2014 , ( 07 ) 026 - 026 .
Chandrashekar CM, Melville S, Busch T ( 2014 ) . Single photons in an imperfect array of beam-splitters: interplay between percolation, backscattering and transient localization . Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics vol. 47 , ( 8 )