Four lepton production and the accuracy of QED FSR

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We scrutinise the ability of the primary QED final-state resummation tools, combined with electroweak virtual corrections, to reproduce the exact next-to-leading order electroweak calculation in the four-charged-lepton final state.

• We further examine the dependence of the findings on the lepton-photon dressing-cone size as well as the resonance identification strategy.
• Overall we find excellent agreement with the fixed-order result, but partial differences not directly connected with resummation-induced higher-order effects at the few-percent level are observed in some cases, which are relevant for precision measurements.