Direct dark matter detection: the next decade

By L. Baudis. 2012

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Direct dark matter searches are promising techniques to identify the nature of dark matter particles. I describe the future of this field of research, focussing on the question of what can be achieved in the next decade. I will present the main techniques and R&D projects that will allow to build so-called ultimate WIMP detectors, capable of probing spin-independent interactions down to the unimaginably low cross section of 1e-48 cm2, before the irreducible neutrino background takes over. If a discovery is within the reach of a near-future dark matter experiment, these detectors will be able to constrain WIMP properties such as its mass, scattering cross section and possibly spin. With input from the LHC and from indirect searches, direct detection experiments will hopefully allow to determine the local density and to constrain the local phase-space structure of our dark matter halo.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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Form factors for dark matter capture by the Sun in effective theories (2015, background): “Data from direct, indirect and collider searches for dark matter with unprecedented exposure, resolution and extension in energy will finally be available during the next 5–10 years [1–7].”
On the validity of the effective field theory for dark matter searches at the LHC part III: analysis for the t-channel (2013, background): “Apart from the indirect [2] and direct [3] searches, DM particles (if they are light enough) might reveal themselves in particle colliders, namely at the LHC.”
A White Paper on keV sterile neutrino Dark Matter (2016, background): “The same interactions that are responsible for the annihilation of two WIMPs in outer space can also be responsible for their production at colliders [33] or their scattering with ordinary matter in direct search experiments [34].”