Dark Matter Searches
WIMP direct detection (LZ, XENONnT, PandaX), axion haloscopes, primordial black holes and astrophysical constraints.
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- Axion cosmology
1. Introduction 2. Models: the QCD axion; the strong CP problem; PQWW, KSVZ, DFSZ; anomalies, instantons and the potential; couplings; axions in string theory 3. Production and I.C.'s: SSB and non-perturbative physics; the axion field during inflation and PQ SSB; cosmological populations - decay of parent, topological defects, thermal production, vacuum real…
Article2,006 citationsarXiv:1510.07633doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2016.06.005 - First Results from the LUX Dark Matter Experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility
The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment, a dual-phase xenon time-projection chamber operating at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (Lead, South Dakota), was cooled and filled in February 2013. We report results of the first WIMP search dataset, taken during the period April to August 2013, presenting the analysis of 85.3 live-days of data with a…
Article1,596 citationsarXiv:1310.8214doi:10.1103/physrevlett.112.091303 - Dark Matter Candidates from Particle Physics and Methods of Detection
The identity of dark matter is a question of central importance in both astrophysics and particle physics. In the past, the leading particle candidates were cold and collisionless, and typically predicted missing energy signals at particle colliders. However, recent progress has greatly expanded the list of well-motivated candidates and the possible signatur…
Review1,479 citationsarXiv:1003.0904doi:10.1146/annurev-astro-082708-10165… - History of dark matter
Although dark matter is a central element of modern cosmology, the history of how it became accepted as part of the dominant paradigm is often ignored or condensed into a brief anecdotical account focused around the work of a few pioneering scientists. The aim of this review is to provide the reader with a broader historical perspective on the observational …
Article1,241 citationsarXiv:1605.04909doi:10.1103/revmodphys.90.045002 - Dark matter self-interactions and small scale structure
We review theories of dark matter (DM) beyond the collisionless paradigm, known as self-interacting dark matter (SIDM), and their observable implications for astrophysical structure in the Universe. Self-interactions are motivated, in part, due to the potential to explain long-standing (and more recent) small scale structure observations that are in tension …
Article1,119 citationsarXiv:1705.02358doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2017.11.004 - The Taiji Program in Space for gravitational wave physics and the nature of gravity
The discovery of gravitational waves (GWs) by the LIGO collaboration [1] in 2016 has provided a direct test on the prediction made by Albert Einstein a century ago based on his general theory of relativity [2]. It has caused a significant influence worldwide on the basic research in science. Space-based GW detection has become the next interesting target for…
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Article1,017 citationsdoi:10.1093/nsr/nwx116 - The waning of the WIMP? A review of models, searches, and constraints
Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are among the best-motivated dark matter candidates. In light of no conclusive detection signal yet despite an extensive search program that combines, often in a complementary way, direct, indirect, and collider probes, we find it timely to give a broad overview of the WIMP paradigm. In particular, we review here …
Review906 citationsarXiv:1703.07364doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5662-y - micrOMEGAs_3: A program for calculating dark matter observables
micrOMEGAs is a code to compute dark matter observables in generic extensions of the standard model. This new version of micrOMEGAs is a major update which includes a generalization of the Boltzmann equations to accommodate models with asymmetric dark matter or with semi-annihilation and a first approach to a generalization of the thermodynamics of the Unive…
Article814 citationsarXiv:1305.0237doi:10.1016/j.cpc.2013.10.016 - Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: a roadmap
The grand challenges of contemporary fundamental physics---dark matter, dark energy, vacuum energy, inflation and early universe cosmology, singularities and the hierarchy problem---all involve gravity as a key component. And of all gravitational phenomena, black holes stand out in their elegant simplicity, while harbouring some of the most remarkable predic…
Article748 citationsarXiv:1806.05195doi:10.1088/1361-6382/ab0587 - Dark Matter Search Results from the CDMS II Experiment
We report results from a blind analysis of the final data taken with the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment (CDMS II) at the Soudan Underground Laboratory, Minnesota, USA. A total raw exposure of 612 kg-days was analyzed for this work. We observed two events in the signal region; based on our background estimate, the probability of observing two or more…
Article811 citationsarXiv:0912.3592doi:10.1126/science.1186112 - Implication of neutrino backgrounds on the reach of next generation dark matter direct detection experiments
As direct dark matter experiments continue to increase in size, they will become sensitive to neutrinos from astrophysical sources. For experiments that do not have directional sensitivity, coherent neutrino scattering (CNS) from several sources represents an important background to understand, as it can almost perfectly mimic an authentic WIMP signal. Here …
Article719 citationsarXiv:1307.5458doi:10.1103/physrevd.89.023524 - WIMP dark matter candidates and searches—current status and future prospects
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 seve…
Article655 citationsarXiv:1707.06277doi:10.1088/1361-6633/aab913 - DarkSide-20k: A 20 tonne two-phase LAr TPC for direct dark matter detection at LNGS
Building on the successful experience in operating the DarkSide-50 detector, the DarkSide Collaboration is going to construct DarkSide-20k, a direct WIMP search detector using a two-phase Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) with an active (fiducial) mass of 23 t (20 t). The DarkSide-20k LArTPC will be deployed within a shield/veto with a spherical …
Article616 citationsarXiv:1707.08145doi:10.1140/epjp/i2018-11973-4 - Constraints on dark matter from colliders
We show that colliders can impose strong constraints on models of dark matter, in particular when the dark matter is light. We analyze models where the dark matter is a fermion or scalar interacting with quarks and/or gluons through an effective theory containing higher dimensional operators which represent heavier states that have been integrated out of the…
Article630 citationsarXiv:1008.1783doi:10.1103/physrevd.82.116010 - Direct detection of sub-GeV dark matter
Direct detection strategies are proposed for dark matter particles with MeV to GeV mass. In this largely unexplored mass range, dark matter scattering with electrons can cause single-electron ionization signals, which are detectable with current technology. Ultraviolet photons, individual ions, and heat are interesting alternative signals. Focusing on ioniza…
Article621 citationsarXiv:1108.5383doi:10.1103/physrevd.85.076007
Newest work
- Towards Reliably Measuring the Mass-Size Relation of Dark Matter Halos: Impact of projection, miscentering and Eddington biasPreprintarXiv:2610.36531
- Warm inflation beyond the Gaussian limit: primordial black holes and induced gravitational wavesPreprintarXiv:2610.36591
- Antenna-coupled microstrip summing network for wave-like dark matter searchesPreprintarXiv:2610.36684
- Primordial black holes from a type-IIB/F theory inflaton potentialPreprintarXiv:2610.36863
- Searches for new particle physics by methods of classical and neutrino astronomyPreprintarXiv:2610.37198
- Nonradial oscillation modes of axion condensed neutron stars in the Cowling approximationPreprintarXiv:2610.37308
- Cosmological Constraints on Interacting Dark Matter with SPT-3G D1PreprintarXiv:2610.37604
- Stability of Axion--SU(2) Chromomagnetic Condensates with Stochastic Spin-2 DressingPreprintarXiv:2610.37610
- Weighing dark matter particles with gravitational wavesPreprintarXiv:2610.37638
- Light top-flavoured dark matter in dark SMEFT: one-loop matching and phenomenologyPreprintarXiv:2610.34880