Gerald Bryan Cleaver

Associate Professor

Education

Research Interests

Theoretical Particle Physics
• Phenomenology of String Derived Models
• M-Theory Phenomenology
Early Universe Cosmology and Strings Division of CASPER
• String/M Landscape Investigations
• Randall-Sundrum Braneworld Scenarios
• String and Brane Cosmology

Courses Taught

PHY 2435 - General Physics II
PHY 3372 - Intro Quantum Mechanics I
PHY 3373 - Intro Quantum Mechanics II
PHY 4373 - Intro Nuclear & Particle Physics
PHY 5370 - Quantum Mechanics I
PHY 5V95 - Graduate Research
PHY 5V99 - Thesis 
PHY 6373 - Quantum Field Theory I
PHY 6374 - Quantum Field Theory II
PHY 6375 - Quantum Field Theory III 
PHY 6V99 - Dissertation

Current Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Associates

Tibra Ali (Postdoc)
Richard Oboussy
Matt Robinson

Graduates

John Perkins, Ph.D. 2005, Thesis: Aspects of String Phenomenology at the Self-Dual Radius

Ben Dundee, M.S. 2006, Dissertation: Grand Unified Theoreis in Higher Dimensions: From the Heterotic String to Randall-Sundrum

Recent Publications

Randall-Sundrum and Flipped SU(5).
With Ben Dundee, BU-HEPP-06/06; CASPER-06/02.
hep-ph/0609129.

On Geometrical Interpretation of Non-Abelian Flat Direction Constraints.
With Ben Dundee, BU-HEPP-05/10; CASPER-05/11.
hep-ph/0512020.

Stringent Phenomenological Investigation into Heterotic String Optical Unification.
With John Perkins, Ben Dundee, Richard Obousy, Stephanie Hatten, Eric Kasper, Matt Robinson, Cassel Sloan, & Kristin Sloan. BU-HEPP-05/08; CASPER-05/10.
hep-ph/0510141.

Observable/Hidden Broken Symmetry for Symmetric Boundary Conditions.
With John Perkins & Ben Dundee. Int. J. Mod. Phys. A21: 2006 pp. 3367-3386, BU-HEPP-05/03; CASPER-05/03.
hep-ph/0506183.

Heterotic String Optical Unification.
With John Perkins, Ben Dundee, Richard Obousy, Eric Kasper, Matt Robinson, & Kristin Sloan. In the Procedings of the 2nd International Conference on String Theory, Durham, BU-HEPP-03/02; CASPER-03/17.
hep-ph/0310155.

NAHE Based String Models with SU(4)xSU(2) x U(1) SO(10) Subgroup.
With Alon Faraggi & Sander Nooij (Oxford). Nucl. Phys. B672: 2003 pp. 64-86, BU-HEPP-02/13; CASPER-02/05.
hep-ph/03010371.

Recent Developments in String Cosmology.
Talk given at the 34th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Houston, TX, 10-19 Oct 2002. BU-HEPP-02/11; CASPER-02/04.
astro-ph/0303499.

Parameter Space Investigations of Free Fermionic Heterotic Models.
In the Proceedings of String Phenomenology 2002. BU-HEPP-02/08; CASPER-02/03.
hep-ph/0210093

On The Possibility of Optical Unification in Heterotic Strings
With Virendra Desai, Heather Hanson, John Perkins, David Robbins, and Scott Shields, Phys.Rev.D67: 2003, 026009 BU-HEPP-02/02; CASPER-02/02.
hep-ph/0209050

Flat Directions in Left-Right Symmetric String Derived Models
With D. Clements and A. E. Faraggi, BU-HEPP-01/02, Physical Review D65: 2002. p. 106003. BU-HEPP-01/02.
hep-ph/0106060

Phenomenology of Non-Abelian Flat Directions in a Minimal Superstring Standard Model
With A.E. Faraggi, D.V. Nanopoulos, and J.W. Walker, Nuclear Physics B620: 2002. pp. 259-289. BU-HEPP-01/01.
hep-ph/0104091

Flat Directions in Flipped SU(5) I: All-Order Analysis
With J. Ellis and D. Nanopoulos, Nuclear Physics B600: 2001, pp. 315-333.
hep-ph/0009338

Left-Right Symmetric Heterotic-String Derived Models
With A.E. Faraggi and C. Savage. Physical Review D63: 2001, pp. 066001-066004.
hep-ph/0006331

Towards String Predictions
With A.E. Faraggi, D.V. Nanopoulos, and T. ter Veldhuis. International Journal of Modern Physics A16: 2001. pp. 3565-3582.
hep-ph/0002292

A Minimal Superstring Standard Model II: A Phenomenological Survey
With A.E. Faraggi, D.V. Nanopoulos, and J.W. Walker, Nucl. Phys. B593: 2001. pp. 471-504.
hep-ph/9910230

A Minimal Superstring Standard Model I: Flat Directions
With A.E. Faraggi and D.V. Nanopoulos, International Journal of Modern Physics A16: 2001. pp. 425-482.
hep-ph/9904301

M-fluences on String Model Building
In Proceedings of CPT '98, November, 1998, Bloomington. CTP-TAMU-46/98.
hep-ph/9901203

String Derived MSSM and M-Theory Unification
With A.E. Faraggi and D.V. Nanopoulos, Physics Letters B455: 1999, pp. 135-146.
hep-ph/9811426