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We formulate PanScales parton showers for hadron collisions so as to achieve next-to-leading logarithmic (NLL) accuracy across a broad set of observables. We do so specifically for colour singlet production. Relative to the existing PanScales final-state showers, the main new question is that of how to redistribute momentum imbalances from initial-state branching across the remainder of the event. We present tests of the showers at fixed order, including the treatment of full colour for soft-collinear emissions and of spin correlations in both the soft and collinear domains. We also include comparisons to a formulation of a standard dipole shower, the current leading-logarithmic state of the art. A forthcoming companion paper [1] will explore all-order tests of the new showers.
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van Beekveld, M., Ferrario Ravasio, S., Salam, G.P. et al. PanScales parton showers for hadron collisions: formulation and fixed-order studies. J. High Energ. Phys. 2022, 19 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2022)019
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