Light weakly interacting massive particles
Abstract
Light WIMPs are dark matter particle candidates with weak scale interaction with the known particles, and mass in the GeV to 10's of GeV range. Hints of light WIMPs have appeared in several dark matter searches in the last decade. The unprecedented possible coincidence into tantalizingly close regions of mass and cross section of four separate direct detection experimental hints and a potential indirect detection signal in gamma rays from the galactic center, aroused considerable interest in our field. Even if these hints did not so far result in a discovery, they have had a significant impact in our field. Here we review the evidence for and against light WIMPs as dark matter candidates and discuss future relevant experiments and observations
Cite
@article{arxiv.1612.09137,
title = {Light weakly interacting massive particles},
author = {Graciela B. Gelmini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.09137},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
35 pages, 10 figures. Final version with changed title and some replaced figures and references. Review published in Rept. Prog. Phys. 80, no. 8, 082201 (2017) with title "Light weakly interacting massive particles". The files iopams.sty, iopart.cls and iopart12.clo are required to typeset the tex file