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We carry out extensive tests of the next-to-leading logarithmic (NLL) accuracy of the PanScales parton showers, as introduced recently for colour-singlet production in hadron collisions. The tests include comparisons to (semi-)analytic NLL calculations of a wide range of hadron-collider observables: the colour-singlet boson transverse momentum distribution; global and non-global hadronic energy flow variables related to jet vetoes and analogues of jettiness distributions; (sub)jet multiplicities; and observables sensitive to the DGLAP evolution of the incoming momentum fractions. In the tests, we also include an implementation of a standard transverse-momentum ordered dipole shower, to establish the size of missing NLL effects in such showers, which, depending on the observable, can reach 100%. This paper, together with [1], constitutes the first step towards process-independent NLL-accurate parton showers for hadronic collisions.
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van Beekveld, M., Ferrario Ravasio, S., Hamilton, K. et al. PanScales showers for hadron collisions: all-order validation. J. High Energ. Phys. 2022, 20 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2022)020
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