Professor Graham Shore

Professor Emeritus (Science and Engineering)

Faculty of Science and Engineering

g.m.shore@swansea.ac.uk

Office - 501
Fifth Floor
Vivian Building
Singleton Campus

About

Emeritus Professor

Areas Of Expertise

Quantum Field Theory
General Relativity and Gravity
Particle Physics
Cosmology

Career Highlights

Research

http://pyweb.swan.ac.uk/~shore/Home.html

Award Highlights

Publications

Research Highlights

McDonald, J. & Shore, G. (2020). Dynamical evolution of gravitational leptogenesis. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020(10)
https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep10(2020)025, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55475
Charlton, M., Eriksson, S., & Shore, G. (2020). Antihydrogen and Fundamental Physics Springer International Publishing.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51713-7, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa54802
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51713-7
Hollowood, T. & Shore, G. (2012). THE UNBEARABLE BEINGNESS OF LIGHT — Dressingand Undressing Photonsin Black Hole Spacetimes. International Journal of Modern Physics D, 21(11), 1241003
https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218271812410039, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa22030
Hollowood, T. & Shore, G. (2008). The refractive index of curved spacetime: The fate of causality in QED. Nuclear Physics B, 795(1-2)-171.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.11.034, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7242
Hollowood, T., Shore, G., & Stanley, R. (2009). The refractive index of curved spacetime II: QED, Penrose limits and black holes. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2009(08)-089.
https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2009/08/089, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7243
Hollowood, T. & Shore, G. (2008). The causal structure of QED in curved spacetime: analyticity and the refractive index. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2008(12)-091.
https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2008/12/091, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7246
Hollowood, T. & Shore, G. (2010). The effect of gravitational tidal forces on vacuum polarization: How to undress a photon. Physics Letters B, 691(5)-284.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2010.07.006, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7253
Shore, G. (2018). Memory, Penrose limits and the geometry of gravitational shockwaves and gyratons. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018(12), 133
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2018)133, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa47959
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.08827.pdf
Shore, G. (2017). A new twist on the geometry of gravitational plane waves. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017(9)
https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep09(2017)039, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa34003
Shore, G. (2017). The c and a-theorems and the Local Renormalisation Group (1st ed.). Springer International Publishing.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54000-9, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa26479
http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319539997

All Research

Journal Articles

Shore, G. (2026). Lorentz and CPT violation and the hydrogen and antihydrogen molecular ions. III. Rovibrational spectrum and the nonminimal standard model extension. Physical Review D, 114(6), 065006
https://doi.org/10.1103/p2bd-m44y, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa72976
Shore, G. (2025). Lorentz and CPT violation and the hydrogen and antihydrogen molecular ions. I. Rovibrational states. Physical Review D, 112(5), 056015
https://doi.org/10.1103/ng7y-7v34, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70020
Shore, G. (2025). Lorentz and CPT violation and the hydrogen and antihydrogen molecular ions. II. Hyperfine-Zeeman spectrum. Physical Review D, 112(5), 056016
https://doi.org/10.1103/vby7-p924, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa72977
Baker, C., Bertsche, W., Capra, A., Carruth, C., Cesar, C., Charlton, M., Christensen, A., Collister, R., Cridland, A., Eriksson, S., Evans, A., Evetts, N., Fajans, J., Friesen, T., Fujiwara, M., Gill, D., Grandemange, P., Granum, P., Hangst, J...., & Shore, G. (2025). Precision spectroscopy of the hyperfine components of the 1S–2S transition in antihydrogen. Nature Physics, 21(2), 201-207.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-024-02712-9, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa68708
McDonald, J. & Shore, G. (2020). Dynamical evolution of gravitational leptogenesis. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020(10)
https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep10(2020)025, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55475
Shore, G. (2018). Memory, Penrose limits and the geometry of gravitational shockwaves and gyratons. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018(12), 133
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2018)133, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa47959
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.08827.pdf
Shore, G. (2017). A new twist on the geometry of gravitational plane waves. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017(9)
https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep09(2017)039, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa34003
McDonald, J. & Shore, G. (2017). Leptogenesis and gravity: Baryon asymmetry without decays. Physics Letters B, 766, 162-169.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2016.11.057, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa28018
Hollowood, T. & Shore, G. (2016). Causality, renormalizability and ultra-high energy gravitational scattering. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 49(21), 215401
https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8113/49/21/215401, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa26478
Hollowood, T. & Shore, G. (2016). Causality violation, gravitational shockwaves and UV completion. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016(3)
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2016)129, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa25649
McDonald, J. & Shore, G. (2016). Leptogenesis from loop effects in curved spacetime. Journal of High Energy Physics, 1604, 030
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2016)030, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa25650
https://arXiv:1512.02238 [hep-ph]
McDonald, J. & Shore, G. (2015). Radiatively-induced gravitational leptogenesis. Physics Letters B, B751, 469-473.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2015.10.075, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa24750
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03702693/751/supp/C
McDonald, J. & Shore, G. (2015). Gravitational leptogenesis, C, CP and strong equivalence. Journal of High Energy Physics(2015:76)
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2015)076, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa20696
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FJHEP02%282015%29076
Armoni, A., Shifman, M., Shore, G., & Veneziano, G. (2015). The quark condensate in multi-flavour QCD – planar equivalence confronting lattice simulations. Physics Letters B, 741, 184-189.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2014.12.035, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa20694
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037026931400906X
Shore, G. & Shore, G. (2013). Polarised structure functions and two-photon physics at Super-B. The European Physical Journal C, 73(3)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-013-2340-y, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa13647
http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1211.3922
Hollowood, T. & Shore, G. (2012). THE UNBEARABLE BEINGNESS OF LIGHT — Dressingand Undressing Photonsin Black Hole Spacetimes. International Journal of Modern Physics D, 21(11), 1241003
https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218271812410039, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa22030
Hollowood, T. & Shore, G. (2012). The Unbearable Beingness of Light - dressing and undressing photons in black hole spacetimes. Int. J. Mod. Phys. D, 21, 1241003-1241010.
https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218271812410039, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7968
Hollowood, T. & Shore, G. (2012). The effect of gravitational tidal forces on renormalized quantum fields. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2012(2), 120
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2012)120, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7967
Hollowood, T. & Shore, G. (2010). The effect of gravitational tidal forces on vacuum polarization: How to undress a photon. Physics Letters B, 691(5)-284.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2010.07.006, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7253
Hollowood, T. & Shore, G. (2010). `Superluminal' Photon Propagation in QED in Curved Spacetime is Dispersive and Causal.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa9216
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1006.1238
Hollowood, T., Shore, G., & Stanley, R. (2009). The refractive index of curved spacetime II: QED, Penrose limits and black holes. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2009(08)-089.
https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2009/08/089, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7243
Hollowood, T. & Shore, G. (2008). The refractive index of curved spacetime: The fate of causality in QED. Nuclear Physics B, 795(1-2)-171.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.11.034, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7242
Hollowood, T. & Shore, G. (2008). The causal structure of QED in curved spacetime: analyticity and the refractive index. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2008(12)-091.
https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2008/12/091, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7246
Hollowood, T. & Shore, G. (2007). Causality and Micro-Causality in Curved Spacetime. Phys. Lett. B, 655, 67-74.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2007.08.073, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa1530
Shore, G. & Shore, G. (2007). Superluminality and UV completion. Nuclear Physics B, 778(3), 219-258.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.03.034, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa1532
Shore, G. (2006). Pseudoscalar meson decay constants and couplings, the Witten-Veneziano formula beyond large N(c), and the topological susceptibility,. Nucl. Phys. B, 744, 34-58.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2006.03.011, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa17503
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0601051
Armoni, A., Shore, G., & Veneziano, G. (2006). Quark condensate in massless QCD from planar equivalence. Nucl. Phys. B, 740(1-2), 23-35.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2006.01.044, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa17504
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0511143
Shore, G. (2005). Strong equivalence, Lorentz and CPT violation, anti-hydrogen spectroscopy and gamma-ray burst polarimetry. Nuclear Physics B, 717(1-2), 86-118.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2005.03.040, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa1529
Shore, G. (2005). The Polarised photon g(1) gamma sum rule at the linear collider and high luminosity B factories. Nucl. Phys. B, 712(1-2), 411-429.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2005.01.026, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa17505
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0412192
Shore, G. (2003). Quantum gravitational optics. Contemp. Phys., 44(6), 503-521.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00107510310001617106, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa17506
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0304059
Shore, G. (2003). Constructing Time Machines. Int. J. Mod. Phys., 18(23), 4169-4200.
https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217751X03015118, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa17508
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0210048
Shore, G. (2002). A local effective action for photon–gravity interactions. Nucl. Phys. B, 646(1-2), 281-300.
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0550-3213(02)00833-7, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa17509
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0205042
Shore, G. (2002). Faster than Light Photons in Gravitational Fields II – Dispersion and Vacuum Polarisation. Nucl. Phys. B, 633(1-2), 271-294.
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0550-3213(02)00240-7, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa17510
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0203034
Shore, G. & Shore, G. (2002). η′(η) → γγ : A Tale of Two Anomalies. Phys. Scripta, T99, 84-95.
https://doi.org/10.1238/Physica.Topical.099a00084, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa17512
Shore, G. (2001). Accelerating photons with gravitational radiation. Nucl. Phys. B, 605(1-3), 455-466.
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0550-3213(01)00137-7, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa17521
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0012063
White, B. & Shore, G. (1999). The gauge-invariant angular momentum sum-rule for the proton. Nuclear Physics B, "B581"(1-2), 409-431.
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0550-3213(00)00288-1, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa31899
http://inspirehep.net/record/511545
Shore, G. & Shore, G. (1999). Radiative η′ decays, the topological susceptibility and the Witten–Veneziano mass formula. Nuclear Physics B, "B569"(1-3), 107-124.
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00623-9, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa31900
http://inspirehep.net/record/504946
Grazzini, M., White, B., & Shore, G. (1999). Target fragmentation in semi-inclusive DIS: Fracture functions, cut vertices and the OPE. Nuclear Physics B, "B555"(1-2), 259-278.
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00347-8, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa31901
http://inspirehep.net/record/497558
Narison, S., Veneziano, G., & Shore, G. (1998). Topological charge screening and the ‘proton spin’ beyond the chiral limit. Nuclear Physics B, "B546"(1-2), 235-278.
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00061-9, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa31902
http://inspirehep.net/record/480795
Veneziano, G. & Shore, G. (1997). Testing target independence of the ‘proton spin’ effect in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering. Nuclear Physics B, "B516"(1-2), 333-353.
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00751-7, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa31903
http://inspirehep.net/record/447829
Long, D. & Shore, G. (1996). The Schrödinger wave functional and vacuum states in curved spacetime II: Boundaries and foliations. Nuclear Physics B, "B530"(1-2), 279-303.
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00409-X, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa31906
http://inspirehep.net/record/420713
Long, D. & Shore, G. (1996). The Schrödinger wave functional and vacuum states in curved spacetime. Nuclear Physics B, "B530"(1-2), 247-278.
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00408-8, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa31907
http://inspirehep.net/record/418181
Daniels, R. & Shore, G. (1995). “Faster than light” photons and rotating black holes. Physics Letters B, "B367"(1-4), 75-83.
https://doi.org/10.1016/0370-2693(95)01468-3, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa31908
http://inspirehep.net/record/398630
Shore, G. & Shore, G. (1995). ‘Faster than light’ photons in gravitational fields — Causality, anomalies and horizons. Nuclear Physics B, "B460"(2), 379-396.
https://doi.org/10.1016/0550-3213(95)00646-X, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa31909
http://inspirehep.net/record/394547
Narison, S., Veneziano, G., & Shore, G. (1994). Target independence of the EMC-SMC effect. Nuclear Physics B, "B433"(1), 209-233.
https://doi.org/10.1016/0550-3213(94)00329-D, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa31911
http://inspirehep.net/record/37917
Daniels, R. & Shore, G. (1993). “Faster than light” photons and charged black holes. Nuclear Physics B, "B425"(3), 634-650.
https://doi.org/10.1016/0550-3213(94)90291-7, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa31912
http://inspirehep.net/record/359227

Authored Books

Charlton, M., Eriksson, S., & Shore, G. (2020). Antihydrogen and Fundamental Physics Springer International Publishing.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51713-7, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa54802
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51713-7
Shore, G. (2017). The c and a-theorems and the Local Renormalisation Group (1st ed.). Springer International Publishing.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54000-9, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa26479
http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319539997

Book Chapters

Shore, G. (2007). The U(1)A Anomaly and QCD Phenomenology. Lecture Notes in Physics (pp. 235-288). Springer-Verlag
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74233-3_12, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa17511
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0701171
Shore, G. (2006). Causality and Superluminal Light. Time and Matter (pp. 45-66). World Scientific
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa17507
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0302116
Shore, G. (1998). U_A(1) problems and gluon topology: Anomalous symmetry in QCD. Hidden Symmetries and Higgs Phenomena. Proceedings,Zuoz 1998 (pp. 201-223).
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa32021
https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9812354v1
Shore, G. (1998). The Proton spin crisis: Another ABJ anomaly?. From the Planck length to the Hubble radius. Proceedings, Erice 1998 (pp. 79-105).
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa32023
https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9812355v1
Shore, G. (1997). Target fragmentation at polarized HERA: A Test of universal topological charge screening in QCD. Physics with polarized protons at HERA. Proceedings, Hamburg 1997 (pp. 194-201).
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa32022
https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9711353v1
Shore, G. (1996). The Standard Model. School for Young High Energy Physicists. Proceedings, Abingdon 1995. (pp. 99-154).
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa32024
http://inspirehep.net/record/970352

Conference Contributions

Shore, G. & Shore, G. (1997). The ‘proton spin’ effect — theoretical status '97. In Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements (pp. 167-178).
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0920-5632(97)01056-6, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa31904
http://inspirehep.net/record/449788
Shore, G. & Shore, G. (1996). A test of target independence of the ‘proton spin’ effect in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering. In Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements (pp. 122-126).
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0920-5632(97)00026-1, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa31905
http://inspirehep.net/record/423661
Shore, G. & Shore, G. (1994). Target independence of the ‘proton spin’ effect. In Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements (pp. 101-105).
https://doi.org/10.1016/0920-5632(95)00051-A, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa31910
http://inspirehep.net/record/379257