  We study $N$-jettiness in electroweak processes at extreme high energies. The
description of the scattering process such as $e^- e^+ \rightarrow \mu^- \mu^+
+X$ is similar to QCD. At present, electroweak processes are prevailed by the
processes induced by the strong interaction, but they will be relevant at
future $e^- e^+$ colliders at high energy. The main difference between QCD and
electroweak processes is that the initial- and final-state particles should
appear in the form of hadrons, that is, color singlets in QCD, while there can
be weak nonsinglets as well in electroweak interactions. We analyze the
factorization theorems for the $N$-jettiness in $e^- e^+ \rightarrow \mu^-
\mu^+ +X$, and compute the factorized parts to next-to-leading logarithmic
accuracy. To simplify the comparison with QCD, we only consider the $SU(2)_W$
gauge interaction, and the extension to the Standard Model is straightforward.
Put it in a different way, it corresponds to an imaginary world in which
colored particles can be observed in QCD, and the richer structure of effective
theories is probed. Various nonzero nonsinglet matrix elements are interwoven
to produce the factorized results, in contrast to QCD in which there are only
contributions from the singlets. Another distinct feature is that the rapidity
divergence is prevalent in the contributions from weak nonsinglets due to the
different group theory factors between the real and virtual corrections. We
verify that the rapidity divergence cancels in all the contributions with a
different number of nonsinglet channels. We also consider the renormalization
group evolution of each factorized part to resum large logarithms, which are
distinct from QCD.
