Contact Pitt: Mail: Univ. of Pittsburgh Dept. of Phys. & Astro. 3941 O'Hara St. Pittsburgh, PA, 15260 Office: Thaw M2 Phone: +1 412-624-0209 Email: rer50@pitt.edu UW Madison: Email: rruiz@hep.wisc.edu FNAL: Email: rruiz@fnal.gov CERN: Office: Bat. 32, 1-B12 Phone: +41 (0)22-7670-718 (From onsite: 7670-718) Mobile: +41 (0)78-9355-021 Mailbox: J25000 Email: rruiz@cern.ch	Richard E. Ruiz
Research Blurb: My primary research interests address TeV-scale collider phenomenology, with an emphasis on collider signatures from Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) Electroweak (EWK) physics. In other words, I study ways of exploiting the subtle differences between new physics theories and our well-established Standard Model (SM). Past research topics include exploring the physics potential of a new Muon Collider with √s = 4 TeV, at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois. Previously, I was a member of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) collaboration, also through Fermilab, studying the CMS Detector's sensitivity to discovering the Z' boson (pronounced: zee prime) with SM-like couplings. My other research interests include: collider-based dark matter searches, classical field dynamics, and massive neutrinos. News: 2012 LHC Lumi Plots, updated daily if not sooner. (2012 May) Higgs! (2012 January) Hints of the higgs boson? I also now write for Quantum Diaries. It is a terrific source of information about particle physics and, intriguingly enough, about particle physicists. (2011 July) Travel (2012-2013): Feb. - May: Pittsburgh, Pa. - Univ. Pitt. Early June: Kyoto, Japan - Neutrino 2012 June - Late Aug: Kashiwa, Japan - IPMU Aug. - Dec.: Pittsburgh, Pa. - Univ. Pitt. Late Dec.: Los Angeles, Ca. Early Jan.: Chicago, Il. Jan. - ?: Pittsburgh, Pa. - Univ. Pitt.

Contact

Pitt:
Mail: Univ. of Pittsburgh
         Dept. of Phys. & Astro.
         3941 O'Hara St.
         Pittsburgh, PA, 15260
Office: Thaw M2
Phone: +1 412-624-0209
Email: rer50@pitt.edu

UW Madison:
Email: rruiz@hep.wisc.edu

FNAL:
Email: rruiz@fnal.gov

CERN:
Office: Bat. 32, 1-B12
Phone: +41 (0)22-7670-718
(From onsite: 7670-718)
Mobile: +41 (0)78-9355-021
Mailbox: J25000
Email: rruiz@cern.ch

Richard E. Ruiz

Research Blurb:

My primary research interests address TeV-scale collider phenomenology, with an emphasis on collider signatures from Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) Electroweak (EWK) physics. In other words, I study ways of exploiting the subtle differences between new physics theories and our well-established Standard Model (SM).

Past research topics include exploring the physics potential of a new Muon Collider with √s = 4 TeV, at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois. Previously, I was a member of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) collaboration, also through Fermilab, studying the CMS Detector's sensitivity to discovering the Z' boson (pronounced: zee prime) with SM-like couplings. My other research interests include: collider-based dark matter searches, classical field dynamics, and massive neutrinos.

News:

2012 LHC Lumi Plots, updated daily if not sooner. (2012 May)

Higgs! (2012 January)

Hints of the higgs boson? I also now write for Quantum Diaries. It is a terrific source of information about particle physics and, intriguingly enough, about particle physicists. (2011 July)

Travel (2012-2013):

Feb. - May: Pittsburgh, Pa. - Univ. Pitt.
Early June: Kyoto, Japan - Neutrino 2012
June - Late Aug: Kashiwa, Japan - IPMU
Aug. - Dec.: Pittsburgh, Pa. - Univ. Pitt.
Late Dec.: Los Angeles, Ca.
Early Jan.: Chicago, Il.
Jan. - ?: Pittsburgh, Pa. - Univ. Pitt.