Biography

Dr. David Ruth performs research in Experimental Nuclear Physics, studying fundamental open questions about the building blocks of matter. Dr. Ruth received his Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics from the University of New Hampshire in 2022, and subsequently worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the same institution. He previously received a B.A. in Physics at McDaniel College in Maryland.

 

He specializes in studies of nucleon structure, investigating the internal makeup of the proton and neutron which form most of the matter all around us. His research focuses primarily on experiments at Thomas Jefferson National Laboratory in Virginia studying the spin structure of the proton and deuteron. He is interested in spin-polarized and tensor-polarized scattering experiments, and on interaction-dependent ("higher twist") effects which tell us how quarks and gluons interact with each other to form hadrons.

 

Dr. Ruth has published his work on nucleon structure in journals such as Nature Physics and Physics Letters B. He is also involved in the construction of the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), the transformative new machine currently being built at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York. He is interested in the application of machine learning to solve problems in physics, and has developed several neural networks which will be used in the software of the EIC.