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Sudakov evolution without unitarity

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-08-12 v2

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 O(αs2)\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s^2).

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

R2 v1 2026-07-01T03:40:14.426Z