Signals of physics beyond the standard model (BSM) can often be masked by standard model (SM) processes. Therefore, in tandem with my continuing work on model building for the LHC, I have started to study contemporary methods for estimating SM backgrounds.

Summer 2007 - Present

• GenEvA (I): A new framework for event generation.
  Christian W. Bauer, Frank J. Tackmann, and Jesse Thaler.
  arXiv:0801.4026

• GenEvA (II): A phase space generator from a reweighted parton shower.
  Christian W. Bauer, Frank J. Tackmann, and Jesse Thaler.
  arXiv:0801.4028