Gerald B. Cleaver
| Gerald Bryan Cleaver | |
|---|---|
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| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | United States |
| Alma mater |
Caltech Valparaiso University |
| Known for | String theory and string phenomenology |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions |
Baylor University Texas A&M University |
| Doctoral advisor | John Schwarz |
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.
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".
Publications
Gerald Cleaver has authored more than 75 papers on Superstring/M-Theory, six of which are cited more than 50 times and four of which are cited more than 100 times.