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In this paper, we propose new understandings for recently discovered hidden zeros and novel splittings, by utilizing Feynman diagrams. The study focus on ordered tree level amplitudes of three theories, which are ${\rm Tr}(\phi^3)$,…

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

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 extend the method proposed in \cite{Arkani-Hamed:2024fyd} for deriving soft theorems of amplitudes, which relies exclusively on factorization properties including conventional factorizations on physical poles, as well as…

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

In this paper, we investigate the $2$-split behavior of tree-level amplitudes of bi-adjoint scalar (BAS), Yang-Mills (YM), non-linear sigma model (NLSM), and general relativity (GR) theories under certain kinematic conditions. Our approach…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Bo Feng , Liang Zhang , Kang Zhou

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

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 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 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

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

We propose a new factorization pattern for tree-level Yang-Mills (YM) amplitudes, where they decompose into a sum of gluings of two lower-point amplitudes by setting specific two-point non-planar Mandelstam variables within a rectangular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-02 Alfredo Guevara , Yong Zhang

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 note, we propose a novel BCFW-like recursion relation for tree-level non-linear sigma model (NLSM) amplitudes, which circumvents the computation of boundary terms by exploiting the recently discovered hidden zeros. Using this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Xiaodi Li , Kang Zhou

Recently, Arkani-Hamed et al. proposed the existence of zeros in scattering amplitudes in certain quantum field theories including the cubic adjoint scalar theory Tr($\phi^3$), the $SU(N)$ non-linear sigma model (NLSM) and Yang-Mills (YM)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-19 Christoph Bartsch , Taro V. Brown , Karol Kampf , Umut Oktem , Shruti Paranjape , Jaroslav Trnka

In this note, we address the question of whether locality, unitarity, and newly discovered hidden zeros can completely determine tree-level amplitudes, from the perspective of soft limit. We reconstruct the single-soft theorems of tree YM…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-09 Kang Zhou

In this paper, we study the newly discovered universal splitting behavior for tree-level scattering amplitudes of particles and strings~\cite{Cao:2024gln}: when a set of Mandelstam variables (and Lorentz products involving polarizations for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-15 Qu Cao , Jin Dong , Song He , Canxin Shi , Fanky Zhu

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

We consider the tree amplitudes of production of $n_2$ scalar particles by $n_1$ particles of another kind, where both initial and final particles are at rest and on mass shell, in a model of two scalar fields with $O(2)$ symmetric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. V. Libanov , V. A. Rubakov , S. V. Troitsky

We study the generalized $2$-split of higher-derivative amplitudes, including Yang-Mills (YM) and Gravity (GR) amplitudes with special insertions of higher-derivative vertices, by expanding them into ${\rm YM}\oplus{\rm BAS}$, ${\rm…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-05 Liang Zhang , Kang Zhou

In this article we review, for a mathematical audience, the computation of (tree-level) scattering amplitudes in Yang-Mills theory in detail, in order to bridge the gap in understanding of the subject between mathematicians and physicists.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-25 Shounak De , Dmitrii Pavlov , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

We use the universality of single soft behavior, together with the double copy structure, to completely determine the tree amplitudes of non-linear sigma model (NLSM). We first figure out the Adler's zero for $4$-point NLSM amplitudes, by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Kang Zhou , Fang-Stars Wei
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