Dark Matter Searches

Abstract

More than 90% of matter in the Universe could be composed of heavy particles, which were non-relativistic, or 'cold', when they froze-out from the primordial soup. I will review current searches for these hypothetical particles, both via interactions with nuclei in deep underground detectors, and via the observation of their annihilation products in the Sun, galactic halo and galactic center.

13 pages, 8 figures, latex. To appear in the Proceedings of the XXII International Symposium on Lepton-Photon Interactions (Uppsala, Sweden, 2005)

References in corpus (17)

• A new determination of the extragalactic diffuse gamma-ray background from EGRET data
• Search for Dark Matter WIMPs using Upward Through-going Muons in Super-Kamiokande
• First Results from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search in the Soudan Underground Lab
• Limits on WIMP dark matter using scintillating CaWO4 cryogenic detectors with active background suppression
• New Measurement of the Cosmic-Ray Positron Fraction from 5 to 15 GeV
• Update on the Direct Detection of Supersymmetric Dark Matter
• Elastic Scattering and Direct Detection of Kaluza-Klein Dark Matter
• Final results of the EDELWEISS-I dark matter search with cryogenic heat-and-ionization Ge detectors
• Directional Sensitivity, WIMP Detection, and the Galactic Halo
• Can WIMP Spin Dependent Couplings explain DAMA data, in light of Null Results from Other Experiments?
• Supersymmetric Dark Matter and the Extragalactic Gamma Ray Background
• TeV $\gamma$-radiation from Dark Matter annihilation in the Galactic center
• The NAIAD experiment for WIMP searches at Boulby mine and recent results
• Comparing WIMP Interaction Rate Detectors with Annual Modulation Detectors
• First Results from the Heidelberg Dark Matter Search Experiment
• Background and Technical Studies for GENIUS as a Dark Matter Experiment
• Status of the ANAIS experiment at Canfranc

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• Constraints on inelastic dark matter from XENON10
• Material screening and selection for XENON100
• New Measurement of the Relative Scintillation Efficiency of Xenon Nuclear Recoils Below 10 keV
• Detecting the Milky Way's Dark Disk
• The scintillation and ionization yield of liquid xenon for nuclear recoils
• Limits on the local dark matter density
• A Modified Gravity and its Consequences for the Solar System, Astrophysics and Cosmology
• Composite macro-bolometers for the rejection of surface radioactive background in rare-event experiments
• The XENON10 WIMP Search Experiment at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory