Amplitude Factorization in the Electroweak Standard Model

Simon Plätzer, Malin Sjodahl

Published 2022-04-07Version 1

We lay out the basis of factorization at the amplitude level for processes involving the entire Standard Model. The factorization appears in a generalized eikonal approximation in which we expand around a quasi-soft limit for massive gauge bosons, fermions, and scalars. We use the chirality-flow formalism together with a flow basis for isospin to express loop exchanges or emissions as operators in chirality and isospin flow. This forms the basis for amplitude evolution with parton exchange and branching in the full Standard Model, including the electroweak sector.