Newcastle University

Roles and Responsibilities

Director of Research.

Research Interests

My research focuses on the inflationary model of the very early universe, and the various quantum processes responsible for the origin of density fluctuations and other major features of the universe. The inflationary model has become the predominant model of the early universe as, one by one, all of its predictions have been confirmed by observation. Inflation has helped to form a new branch of physics, known as 'Particle Astrophysics', which is becoming increasingly recognised as a key research area.

Postgraduate Supervision

T Yeomans 2008-2012

C Graham 2006-2009

N Ahmed 2004-2008

C Xiong 2004-2007

M Giammatteo 2000-2003

LMH Hall 2001-2004

JP Norman 2001-2004

W Santiago-German 1999-2003

Esteem Indicators

EPSRC Peer Review College: Member
IOP Mathematical Physics Group Panel: Member
Editorial Board of 'Classical and Quantum Gravity' (1997-2002)
Fellow of the IOP

• Davies PCW, Moss IG. Cosmological bounds on tachyonic neutrinos. Astroparticle Physics 2012, 35(10), 679-680.
• Moss IG. Black holes with current loops revisited. Physical Review D 2011, 83(12), 124046.
• Moss IG, Omotani JT, Saffin PM. Reducing heterotic M-theory to five dimensional supergravity on a manifold with boundary. Journal of High Energy Physics 2011, (10), 088.
• Ahmed N, Moss IG. Balancing the vacuum energy in heterotic M-theory. Nuclear Physics B 2010, 833(1-2), 133-152.
• Berera A, Moss IG, Ramos RO. Warm Inflation and its Microphysical Basis. Reports on Progress in Physics 2009, 72(2), 026901.
• Ahmed N, Moss IG. Gaugino condensation in an improved heterotic M-theory. Journal of High Energy Physics 2008, (12), 108.
• Moss IG. Higher order terms in an improved heterotic M-theory. Journal of High Energy Physics 2008, (11), 067.
• Moss IG, Xiong C. On the consistency of warm inflation. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2008, (11), 023.
• Moss IG, Graham C. Particle production and reheating of the inflationary universe. Physical Review D 2008,78 12 123526.
• Berera A, Moss IG, Ramos RO. Local approximations for effective scalar field equations of motion. Physical Review D 2007, 76(8), 083520.
• Moss IG, Xiong C. Non-Gaussianity in fluctuations from warm inflation. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2007, 2007(4), -.
• Moss IG, Graham CM. Testing models of inflation with cosmic microwave background non-Gaussianity. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2007, 2007(11).
• Moss IG. Boundary terms for supergravity and low energy heterotic M-theory. Nuclear Physics B 2005, 729(1-2), 179-202.
• Giammatteo M, Moss IG. Gravitational quasinormal modes for Kerr anti-de Sitter black holes. Classical and Quantum Gravity 2005, 22(9), 1803-1824.
• Moss IG, Norman JP. One loop effective potential in heterotic M-theory. Journal of High Energy Physics 2004,8 9 JHEP09(2004)020.
• Moss IG, Norman JP. Radiation back reaction on moving branes. Physical Review D 2004, 70(10), -.
• Hall LMH, Moss IG, Berera A. Scalar perturbation spectra from warm inflation. Physical Review D 2004,69 8 083525.
• Moss IG. Boundary terms for eleven-dimensional supergravity and M-theory. Physics Letters B 2003,577 1-2 71-75.
• Moss IG, Naylor W, Santiago-German W, Sasaki M. Bulk quantum effects for de Sitter branes in AdS5. Physical Review D 2003, 67(12), 9.
• Moss IG. Zeta functions, anomalies and stable branes. In: Gibbons, G.W., Shellard, E.P.S., Rankin, S.J, ed. The Future of Theoretical Physics and Cosmology: Celebrating Stephen Hawking's Contributions to Physics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp.373-383.
• Moss IG. Can you hear the shape of a bell?: Asymptotics of quasinormal modes. In: Nuclear Physics: Proceedings Supplements. 2002, Naples, Italy: Elsevier BV.
• Moss IG, Naylor W. Effective action for bubble nucleation rates. Nuclear Physics B 2002, 632(1-3), 173-188.
• Moss IG, Norman JP. Gravitational quasinormal modes for anti-de Sitter black holes. Classical and Quantum Gravity 2002,19 8 2323-2332.
• Flachi A, Moss IG, Toms DJ. Fermion vacuum energies in brane world models. PHYSICS LETTERS B 2001, 518(1-2), 153-156.
• Flachi A, Moss IG, Toms DJ. Quantized bulk fermions in the Randall-Sundrum brane model. Physical Review D 2001, 64(10), 105029.
• Moss IG, Shiiki N, Takashi T. Vacuum energy of CP(1) solitons. 2001, arXiv:hep-ph/0103240v1.
• Moss IG. Heat kernel expansions for distributional backgrounds. Physics Letters, Section B 2000, 491(1-2), 203-206.
• Moss IG, Shiiki N, Winstanley E. Monopole black hole skyrmions. Classical and Quantum Gravity 2000, 17(20), 4161-4174.
• Moss IG, Shiiki N. Quantum mechanics on moduli spaces. Nuclear Physics B 2000, 565(1-2), 345-362.
• Hawking SW, Moss IG. Fluctuations in the very early universe. Nucl. Phys. 1983, B224, 180.
• Hawking SW, Moss IG. Supercooled phase transitions in the very early universe. Phys. Lett. 1982, B110, 35.