Neutrino Hunters: The Thrilling Chase for a Ghostly Particle to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe

Winner of the Canadian Science Writers Association 2014 Science in Society Book AwardA Publishers Weekly Top 10 Science Book of the SeasonA Book to Watch Out For, The New Yorker's Page-Turner Blog A Los Angeles Times Gift Guide SelectionOne of the Best Physics Books of 2013, Cocktail Party Physics Blog, Scientific AmericanDetective thriller meets astrophysics in this adventure into neutrinos and the scientists who pursue themThe incredibly small bits of matter we call neutrinos may hold the secret to why antimatter is so rare, how mighty stars explode as supernovae, what the universe was like just seconds after the big bang, and even the inner workings of our own planet.For more than eighty years, adventurous minds from around the world have been chasing these ghostly particles, trillions of which pass through our bodies every second.