WIMP dark matter candidates and searches—current status and future prospects

By L. Roszkowski, E. M. Sessolo, S. Trojanowski. Reports on progress in physics. Physical Society, 2017

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We review several current aspects of dark matter theory and experiment. We overview the present experimental status, which includes current bounds and recent claims and hints of a possible signal in a wide range of experiments: direct detection in underground laboratories, gamma-ray, cosmic ray, x-ray, neutrino telescopes, and the LHC. We briefly review several possible particle candidates for a weakly interactive massive particle (WIMP) and dark matter that have recently been considered in the literature. We pay particular attention to the lightest neutralino of supersymmetry as it remains the best motivated candidate for dark matter and also shows excellent detection prospects. Finally we briefly review some alternative scenarios that can considerably alter properties and prospects for the detection of dark matter obtained within the standard thermal WIMP paradigm.

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

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Revisiting constraints on asteroid-mass primordial black holes as dark matter candidates (2019, background): “The scenario that has received the greatest attention is the thermal WIMP scenario (see [24, 25] for recent reviews), in which the dark matter is a massive particle that was in thermal equilibrium in the early Universe when the temperature was much higher than the WIMP mass.”
Refined bounds on MeV-scale thermal dark sectors from BBN and the CMB (2019, background): “[10] L.”