The waning of the WIMP? A review of models, searches, and constraints

By G. Arcadi, Maíra Dutra, Pradipta Ghosh, Manfred Lindner, Y. Mambrini, M. Pierre, S. Profumo, F. Queiroz. The European Physical Journal C, 2017

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Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are among the best-motivated dark matter candidates. No conclusive signal, despite an extensive search program that combines, often in a complementary way, direct, indirect, and collider probes, has been detected so far. This situation might change in near future due to the advent of one/multi-TON Direct Detection experiments. We thus, find it timely to provide a review of the WIMP paradigm with focus on a few models which can be probed at best by these facilities. Collider and Indirect Detection, nevertheless, will not be neglected when they represent a complementary probe.

Subfields: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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WIMP dark matter candidates and searches—current status and future prospects (2017, background): “It is also possible to study WIMP DM properties within a framework of generic portals between the dark sector and the SM without specifying other contents of models that are not directly related to DM interactions (see [9] and references therein).”
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