Gerald B. Cleaver

Gerald B. Cleaver is a professor in the Department of Physics at Baylor University[1] and is the Head of the Early Universe Cosmology and Strings (EUCOS) division of Baylor's Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics & Engineering Research (CASPER). His research specialty is string phenomenology and string model building.

Gerald Bryan Cleaver
NationalityUnited States
Alma materCaltech
Valparaiso University
Known forString theory and string phenomenology
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsBaylor University
Texas A&M University
Doctoral advisorJohn Schwarz

Career

Gerald Cleaver did his Ph.D. at Caltech where John H. Schwarz was his thesis adviser. As a postdoc at Texas A&M University he worked with Dimitri Nanopoulos.

Research

With Dimitri Nanopoulos Cleaver constructed the first string-derived model containing only the particles of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) in the observable sector.[2]

At Baylor University Cleaver has constructed the first string derived Near-MSSM[3] possessing the potential to resolve the factor-of-20 difference between the MSSM unification scale of 2.5×1025 eV (25 YeV or 4.0 MJ) and the weakly coupled heterotic string scale of 5×1026 eV (500 YeV or 80 MJ) via a robust method referred to as "optical unification".

References
  1. Gerald Bryan Cleaver Archived 2007-04-29 at the Wayback Machine at Baylor University
  2. String derived MSSM and M-theory unification
  3. Possibility of optical unification in heterotic strings
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