Gerald B. Cleaver is a professor in the Department of Physics at

Baylor University Baylor University is a private Baptist Christian research university in Waco, Texas. Baylor was chartered in 1845 by the last Congress of the Republic of Texas. Baylor is the oldest continuously operating university in Texas and one of the fir ...

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 The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech or CIT)The university itself only spells its short form as "Caltech"; the institution considers other spellings such a"Cal Tech" and "CalTech" incorrect. The institute is also occasional ...

where

John H. Schwarz John Henry Schwarz (; born November 22, 1941) is an American theoretical physicist. Along with Yoichiro Nambu, Holger Bech Nielsen, Joël Scherk, Gabriele Veneziano, Michael Green, and Leonard Susskind, he is regarded as one of the founders of s ...

was his thesis adviser. As a postdoc at

Texas A&M University Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, or TAMU) is a public, land-grant, research university in College Station, Texas. It was founded in 1876 and became the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System in 1948. As of late 2021, T ...

he worked with

Dimitri Nanopoulos Dimitri V. Nanopoulos (; el, Δημήτρης Νανόπουλος; born 13 September 1948) is a Greek physicist. He is one of the most regularly cited researchers in the world, cited more than 48,500 times across a number of separate branches of ...

Research

With

Cleaver constructed the first string-derived model containing only the particles of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) in the observable sector. At Baylor University Cleaver has constructed the first string derived Near-MSSMPossibility of optical unification in heterotic strings
/ref> 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

External links

worldscinet.comCleaver's papers on SPIRES
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