English

Dark matter direct detection: status, results and future plans

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2025-12-30 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Direct dark matter detection experiments search for rare signals induced by hypothetical, galactic dark matter particles in low-background detectors operated deep underground. I will briefly review the direct detection principles, the expected signals and backgrounds, and the main experimental techniques. I will then discuss the status of ongoing experiments aiming to discover new particles in the keV - TeV mass range, as well as future detectors and their sensitivity.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2512.23039,
  title  = {Dark matter direct detection: status, results and future plans},
  author = {Laura Baudis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.23039},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

10 pages, 4 figures; published in the Proceedings of the 11th Symposium on Large TPCs for low-energy rare event detection, December 2023. Updated figure 4

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