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It was recently discovered by Arkani-Hamed et al and Cao et al that the colour-ordered scattering amplitudes of Tr$(\Phi^3)$, the non-linear sigma model and Yang-Mills-scalar vanish at specific loci. We build on this observation and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-31 Yang Li , Diederik Roest , Tonnis ter Veldhuis

We investigate the hidden amplitude zeros discovered by Arkani-Hamed et al., which describe a non-trivial vanishing of scattering amplitudes on special external kinematics. We first prove that every type of hidden zero is equivalent to what…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-27 Laurentiu Rodina

Recent years have seen the emergence of a new understanding of scattering amplitudes in the simplest theory of colored scalar particles - the Tr$(\phi^3)$ theory - based on combinatorial and geometric ideas in the kinematic space of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-31 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Qu Cao , Jin Dong , Carolina Figueiredo , Song He

In this note, we derive and interpret hidden zeros of tree-level amplitudes of various theories, including Yang-Mills, non-linear sigma model, special Galileon, Dirac-Born-Infeld, and gravity, by utilizing universal expansions of tree-level…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Hao Huang , Ye Yang , Kang Zhou

We extend the recently discovered phenomenon of hidden zeros to tree amplitudes for Yang-Mills (YM) and general relativity (GR) theories with higher-derivative interactions. This includes gluon amplitudes with a single insertion of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Kang Zhou

Recent investigations into the geometric structure of scattering amplitudes have revealed the surprising existence of "hidden zeros": secret kinematic loci where tree-level amplitudes in Tr$(\phi^3)$ theory, the Non-Linear Sigma Model…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-23 Jeffrey V. Backus , Laurentiu Rodina

We derive new amplitudes relations revealing a hidden unity among wide-ranging theories in arbitrary spacetime dimensions. Our results rely on a set of Lorentz invariant differential operators which transmute physical tree-level scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Clifford Cheung , Chia-Hsien Shen , Congkao Wen

In this paper, we propose a universal diagrammatic interpretation of hidden zeros and $2$-splits of tree-level amplitudes. Originally developed for ${\rm Tr}(\phi^3)$ amplitudes in our previous work, this interpretation is now extended to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-28 Kang Zhou

Pion scattering amplitudes were recently found to vanish on specific kinematic loci, and to factorise close to these loci into a product of two lower-point amplitudes of an extended theory. We propose a diagrammatic representation of pion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-31 Yang Li , Tianzhi Wang , Tomáš Brauner , Diederik Roest

We investigate whether the hidden zeros and associated factorisations found for massless colour-ordered amplitudes persist under massive deformations. Using the kinematic mesh construction, we show that hidden zeros survive only for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-26 Mariana Carrillo González , Freddie Ward

Motivated by the recent discovery of hidden zeros in particle and string amplitudes, we characterize zeros of individual graph contributions to the cosmological wavefunction of a scalar field theory. We demonstrate that these contributions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-19 Shounak De , Shruti Paranjape , Andrzej Pokraka , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

Scattering amplitudes for the simplest theory of colored scalar particles - the Tr($\Phi^3$) theory - have recently been the subject of active investigations. In this letter we describe an unanticipated wider implication of this work: the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-31 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Qu Cao , Jin Dong , Carolina Figueiredo , Song He

The occurrence of zeros of 2 to n amplitudes at threshold in scalar theories is studied. We find a differential equation for the scalar potential, which incorporates all known cases where the 2 to n amplitudes at threshold vanish for all…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 E. N. Argyres , C. G. Papadopoulos , R. Kleiss

We describe a new approach to understanding the origins of recently discovered "hidden zeros" and "smooth splitting" of tree-level amplitudes in $\text{Tr}\phi^3$, Non-Linear Sigma Model (NLSM), Yang-Mill-Scalar (YMS) and the special…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-06 Callum R. T. Jones , Shruti Paranjape

In this work, we prove the new factorization pattern for tree-level Yang-Mills (YM) amplitudes proposed in a companion paper. This pattern reveals a decomposition of amplitudes into a sum of gluings of lower-point amplitudes under specific…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-11 Yong Zhang

We extend the double copy picture of scattering amplitudes to a class of matrix elements (so-called form factors) that involve local gauge invariant operators. Both the Bern, Carrasco and Johansson (BCJ) and the Kawai, Lewellen and Tye…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-28 Guanda Lin , Gang Yang

We extend the hidden zeros and $2$-split of tree-level ${\rm Tr}(\phi^3)$ amplitudes to loop-level Feynman integrands, apart from some physically irrelevant scaleless integrals. Our method is based on a certain factorization mechanism that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-16 Kang Zhou

In this paper, we study the zeros of string theory utilizing its curve-integral representation. Firstly, we note that for bosonic strings the tachyon amplitude in curve-representation is identical to the kinematic shifted Tr$\phi^3$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-19 Yu-Chi Chang , Hsing-Yen Chen , Yu-tin Huang

These notes were given as lectures at the CERN Winter School on Supergravity, Strings and Gauge Theory 2010. We describe the structure of scattering amplitudes in gauge theories, focussing on the maximally supersymmetric theory to highlight…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 J. M. Drummond

In this paper, we study a novel behavior developed by certain tree-level scalar scattering amplitudes, including the biadjoint, NLSM, and special Galileon, when a subset of kinematic invariants vanishes without producing a singularity. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-14 Freddy Cachazo , Nick Early , Bruno Umbert
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