Edmund Copeland

Professor of Physics, Faculty of Science

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workRoom B106a Centre for Astronomy & Particle Physics
University Park
Nottingham
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UK
work0115 951 5164
fax0115 846 6070
Edmund.Copeland@nottingham.ac.uk
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~ppzejc/

Research Summary

Recent Publications

AVGOUSTIDIS, A, COPELAND, EJ, MOSS, A, POGOSIAN, L, POURTSIDOU, A and STEER, DA, 2011. Constraints On The Fundamental String Coupling From B-Mode Experiments Physical Review Letters. 107(12), -
COPELAND, EJ and KIBBLE, TWB, 2010. Cosmic Strings And Superstrings
COPELAND, EJ and KIBBLE, TWB, 2009. Kinks And Small-Scale Structure On Cosmic Strings Physical Review D. 80(12), -
COPELAND, EJ, MULRYNE, DJ, NUNES, NJ and SHAERI, M, 2009. Gravitational Wave Background From Superinflation In Loop Quantum Cosmology Physical Review D. 79(2), -

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Current Research

I am particularly interested in how the physics of the very Early Universe could be tested by observations of both the largest scales (astronomy) and the smallest scales in the universe (particle physics). The overlap of these areas is known as particle cosmology. It offers the hope that we can test paradigms such as string theory, the Inflationary universe, cosmic strings as well as understand the nature of the initial singularity in the universe. More details about the research of the particle physics group can be found at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/physics/research/particles/index.html Publications (this link is more up to date than the tab above) : http://xxx.soton.ac.uk/find/astro-ph,hep-th,hep-ph,gr-qc/1/copeland/0/1/0/all+years/3/0

Teaching

F3CAA6: Cosmology : link to http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~ppzejc/cosmology/cosmology-course.htm

F34YY7: Maths-Physics projects : link to http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~ppzejc/F34YY7.html

AVGOUSTIDIS, A, COPELAND, EJ, MOSS, A, POGOSIAN, L, POURTSIDOU, A and STEER, DA, 2011. Constraints On The Fundamental String Coupling From B-Mode Experiments Physical Review Letters. 107(12), -
COPELAND, EJ and KIBBLE, TWB, 2010. Cosmic Strings And Superstrings
COPELAND, EJ and KIBBLE, TWB, 2009. Kinks And Small-Scale Structure On Cosmic Strings Physical Review D. 80(12), -
COPELAND, EJ, MULRYNE, DJ, NUNES, NJ and SHAERI, M, 2009. Gravitational Wave Background From Superinflation In Loop Quantum Cosmology Physical Review D. 79(2), -
COPELAND, EJ, FIROUZJAHI, H, KIBBLE, TWB and STEER, DA, 2008. Collision Of Cosmic Superstrings Physical Review D. 77(6), -
COPELAND, EJ, MULRYNE, DJ, NUNES, NJ and SHAERI, M, 2008. Superinflation In Loop Quantum Cosmology Physical Review D. 77(2), -
COPELAND, E.J, KIBBLE, T.W.B and STEER, D.A, 2006. Collisions of strings with Y junctions Physical Review Letters. 97(2), 021602
COPELAND, E. J., LIDSEY, J. E. and MIZUNO, S., 2006. Correspondence between loop-inspired and braneworld cosmology (9 pages) Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. VOL 73(NUMB 4), 043503
COPELAND, E.J. and SAFFIN, P.M., 2005. On the evolution of multi string networks Journal of High Energy Physics. 11(023), 1-13
COPELAND, E.J. and RAJANTIE, A., 2005. The end of locked inflation Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. art. no.-008
BARREIRO, T., DE CARLOS, B., COPELAND, E. and NUNES, N. J., 2005. Moduli evolution in the presence of flux compactifications (10 pages) Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. VOL 72(NUMB 10), 106004
COPELAND, E. J., LEE, S.-J., LIDSEY, J. E. and MIZUNO, S., 2005. Generalized cosmological scaling solutions (10 pages) Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. VOL 71(NUMB 2), 023526
COPELAND, E. J., ELLISON, J., ROBERTS, J. and LUKAS, A., 2005. Isometries of low-energy heterotic M theory (9 pages) Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. VOL 72(NUMB 8), 086008
COPELAND, E. J. and SETO, O., 2005. Reheating and gravitino production in braneworld inflation (11 pages) Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. VOL 72(NUMB 2), 023506
COPELAND, E. J., GAROUSI, M. R., SAMI, M. and TSUJIKAWA, S., 2005. What is needed of a tachyon if it is to be the dark energy? (11 pages) Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. VOL 71(NUMB 4), 043003
COPELAND, E.J., MYERS, R.C. and POLCHINSKI, J., 2004. Cosmic F- and D-strings Journal of High Energy Physics. 6(Article 13), 1-24
CORASANITI, P. S., KUNZ, M., PARKINSON, D., COPELAND, E. J. and BASSETT, B. A., 2004. Foundations of observing dark energy dynamics with the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (15 pages) Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. VOL 70(NUMB 8), 083006
VALLINOTTO, A., COPELAND, E. J., KOLB, E. W., LIDDLE, A. R. and STEER, D. A., 2004. Inflationary potentials yielding constant scalar perturbation spectral indices (8 pages) Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. VOL 69(PART 10), 103519
AVELINO, P. P., BECA, L. M. G., DE CARVALHO, J. P. M., MARTINS, C. J. A. P. and COPELAND, E. J., 2004. Onset of the nonlinear regime in unified dark matter models (5 pages) Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. VOL 69(PART 4), 041301(R)
COPELAND, E. J., MYERS, R. C. and POLCHINSKI, J., 2004. Cosmic superstrings II Comptes Rendus Physique. VOL 5(NUMBER 9-10), 1021-1029
ANTUNES, N. D., COPELAND, E. J., HINDMARSH, M. and LUKAS, A., 2004. Kink-boundary collisions in a two-dimensional scalar field theory (11 pages) Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. VOL 69(PART 6), 065016
PALTI, E., SAFFIN, P. M. and COPELAND, E. J., 2004. Dynamics of Q-balls in an expanding universe (6 pages) Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. VOL 70(NUMB 8), 083520
KUNZ, M., CORASANITI, P.-S., PARKINSON, D. and COPELAND, E. J., 2004. Model-independent dark energy test with sigma~8 using results from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (5 pages) Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. VOL 70(NUMB 4), 041301(R)
COPELAND, E.J., NUNES, N.J. and POSPELOV, M., 2004. Models of quintessence coupled to the electromagnetic field and the cosmological evolution of alpha Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. 69(2),
MIZUNO, S., LEE, S.-J. and COPELAND, E. J., 2004. Cosmological evolution of general scalar fields in a brane-world cosmology (10 pages) Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. VOL 70(NUMB 4), 043525
CORASANITI, P.S. and COPELAND, E.J., 2003. Model independent approach to the dark energy equation of state Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. 67(6), 063521-064000
CORASANITI, P. S., BASSETT, B. A., UNGARELLI, C. and COPELAND, E. J., 2003. Model-Independent Dark Energy Differentiation with the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe Effect Physical Review Letters. VOL 90(PART 9), 091303
CARTIER, C., DURRER, R. and COPELAND, E. J., 2003. Cosmological perturbations and the transition from contraction to expansion (18 pages) Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. VOL 67(PART 10), 103517
MALQUARTI, M., COPELAND, E. J., LIDDLE, A. R. and TRODDEN, M., 2003. A new view of k-essence (7 pages) Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. VOL 67(PART 12), 123503
COPELAND, E. J., SAFFIN, P. M. and STEER, D. A., 2003. Singular tachyon kinks from regular profiles (4 pages) Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. VOL 68(PART 6), 065013
ANTUNES, N. D., COPELAND, E. J., HINDMARSH, M. and LUKAS, A., 2003. Kinky brane worlds (16 pages) Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. VOL 68(PART 6), 066005
MALQUARTI, M., COPELAND, E. J. and LIDDLE, A. R., 2003. k-essence and the coincidence problem (5 pages) Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. VOL 68(PART 2), 023512
COPELAND, E. J., PASCOLI, S. and RAJANTIE, A., 2002. Dynamics of tachyonic preheating after hybrid inflation Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. VOL 65(PART 10), 103517
CORASANITI, P. S. and COPELAND, E. J., 2002. Constraining the quintessence equation of state with SnIa data and CMB peaks Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. VOL 65(PART 4), 043004
BASTERO-GIL, M., COPELAND, E. J., GRAY, J., LUKAS, A. and PLUMACHER, M., 2002. Baryogenesis by brane collision Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. VOL 66(PART 6), 066005
COPELAND, E. J., GRAY, J., LUKAS, A. and SKINNER, D., 2002. Five-dimensional moving brane solutions with four-dimensional limiting behavior (11 pages) Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. VOL 66(PART 12), 124007
NUNES, N. J. and COPELAND, E. J., 2002. Tracking quintessential inflation from brane worlds Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. VOL 66(PART 4), 043524
COPELAND, E.J., LIDDLE, A.R. and LIDSEY, J.E., 2001. Steep inflation: Ending braneworld inflation by gravitational particle production Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. 64(2), 023509
COPELAND, E. J., GRAY, J. and LUKAS, A., 2001. Moving five-branes in low-energy heterotic M theory Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. VOL 64(PART 12), 126003
CARTIER, C., COPELAND, E. J. and GASPERINI, M., 2001. Gravitational waves in non-singular string cosmologies Nuclear Physics. VOL 607(NUMBER 1-2), 406-428
CARTIER, C., HWANG, J.-C. and COPELAND, E. J., 2001. Evolution of cosmological perturbations in nonsingular string cosmologies Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. VOL 64(PART 10), 103504
GRAY, J. and COPELAND, E.J., 2001. Gravitational instantons, extra dimensions and form fields Journal of High Energy Physics. 2001(6), art. no.-046
RAJANTIE, A., SAFFIN, P. M. and COPELAND, E. J., 2001. Electroweak preheating on a lattice Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. VOL 63(PART 12), 123512
COPELAND, E. J., LYTH, D., RAJANTIE, A. and TRODDEN, M., 2001. Hybrid inflation and baryogenesis at the TeV scale Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. VOL 64(PART 4), 043506
CARTIER, C., COPELAND, E.J. and MADDEN, R., 2000. The graceful exit in pre-Big Bang string cosmology Journal of High Energy Physics. 2000(1), art. no.-035

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