Sudakov evolution without unitarity
Abstract
We present a method for sampling singular functions defined on (nested) multi-particle phase spaces, based on a generalisation of parton-shower phase-space generation techniques. At the heart of the method are three key ingredients: 1) the Sudakov sampling by which shower-style calculations sweep across phase space in an ordered manner, from hard to soft; 2) the sequential nesting of multiparticle phase spaces; and 3) the factorisations obeyed by singular multiparton amplitudes on the edges of these phase spaces. We demonstrate a C++ implementation of the proposed algorithm, dubbed Sunshine, for hadronic Z decays, and use it to test the tree-level accuracy of the Vincia sector shower through .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2507.00111,
title = {Sudakov evolution without unitarity},
author = {Javira Altmann and Hai Tao Li and Ludovic Scyboz and Peter Skands},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.00111},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
30 pages, 13 figures, 1 appendix; v2: matches the published version