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http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0605180 www.phy.uct.ac.za/people/horowitz/Teaching/lecturenotes.pdf The first also has a few recomended texts at the top. Also can try Dirac's original book. In many way's outdated but the math concepts are there.

I think the real reason is that they offer a very concise theoretical description of nature that AGREES WITH EXPERIMENT. After all this is THE key requirement of a successful theory of nature. Since the advent of the standard model, it has been realized that the em, weak and strong force all...

The reason gauge bosons are massless is exactly because they are GUAGE bosons. That is they obey a gauge symmetry which forbids mass terms in the Lagrangian (since we require the action to be gauge invariant - not change under gauge transformations). However the mass terms in the Lagrangian...

The standard understanding of Cherenkov radiation is that it is produced when a (electrically) CHARGED particle passes through a medium at a speed faster the the speed of light in that medium. So neutrinos do not produce this type of radiation simply because they are not charged...

I would highly recommend Matt Strassler's Higgs FAQ to answer some of this: http://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/the-higgs-particle/360-2/ Note he talks about the Higgs field. This is THE important thing that is being looked for at the LHC. We know (without doubt) there must be...

Might also be useful to think in terms of Feynman diags. The u and d quarks will play a role at higher loop orders. The muon goes to W + neut. Now the W can go to a u d pair but they do not have enough energy to hadronise so the pair just exist as a virtual loop which go back to W which then...

These were calculated for KK gravitons in large extra dimensions in arXiv:hep-ph/9811350 . For normal gravitons just use the zero mode solutions.

It seems there do exist non-hermitian hamiltonians with real eigenvalues. These are known as PT-symmetric hamiltonians and have been developed by Carl Bender, see these reviews: arXiv:hep-th/0703096v1 arXiv:0810.5643v3