Non-Baryonic Dark Matter

Abstract

The need for dark matter is briefly reviewed. A wealth of observational information points to the existence of a non-baryonic component. To the theoretically favoured candidates today belong axions, supersymmetric particles, and to some extent massive neutrinos. The theoretical foundation and experimental situation for each of these is reviewed. In particular, indirect detection methods of supersymmetric dark matter are described. Present experiments are just reaching the required sensitivity to discover or rule out some of these candidates, and major improvements are planned over the next few years.

12 pages, LaTex, 2 eps figures, uses epsfig and espcrc2 macros. Invited talk at the 5th International Workshop on ``Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics'' (TAUP97), Gran Sasso, Italy, 7-11 September, 1997, to appear in the Proceedings, Nucl. Phys. Suppl., A. Bottino, A. di Credico and P. Monacelli (eds.)

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