Direct Dark Matter Searches and the EDELWEISS-II Experiment
arXiv:0906.4232
Abstract
Direct searches for Dark Matter are experiment dedicated to the observation of the energetic recoiling ions produced by the scattering of WIMP particles from our galactic halo on terrestrial targets. The status and prospects of some currently running experiments are presented, together with new preliminary results of the experiments EDELWEISS-II.
Talk presented at XLIVth Rencontres de Moriond, Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theories Session, La Thuile, Italy, March 2009, to appear in the proceedings