Gerald B. Cleaver

Gerald B. Cleaver [http://www.baylor.edu/physics/index.php?id=10276] is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at Baylor University [http://www.baylor.edu/] and is Head of the Early Universe Cosmology and Strings (EUCOS) [http://www.baylor.edu/casper/index.php?id=20868] division of Baylor's Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics & Engineering Research (CASPER) [http://www.baylor.edu/casper/splash.php] . His research specialty is string phenomenology and string model building [http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?rawcmd=FIND+A+cleaver&FORMAT=WWW&SEQUENCE=] . John H. Schwarz, one of the founders of string theory, was Cleaver's Ph.D. thesis advisor at Caltech. While a postdoc at Texas A&M University working 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 [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6TVN-3YMF269-S&_coverDate=05%2F27%2F1999&_alid=479499194&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_qd=1&_cdi=5539&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000003958&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=29621&md5=6f5915556ea395a268e3e2e257ef56fe] . At Baylor University Cleaver has constructed the first string derived Near-MSSM [http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=PRVDAQ000067000002026009000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes] 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".

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