Particle Dark Matter Candidates
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v2
Abstract
I give a short overview on some of the favorite particle Cold Dark Matter candidates today, focusing on those having detectable interactions: the axion, the KK-photon in Universal Extra Dimensions, the heavy photon in Little Higgs and the neutralino in Supersymmetry. The neutralino is still the most popular, and today is available in different flavours: SUGRA, nuSUGRA, sub-GUT, Mirage mediation, NMSSM, effective MSSM, scenarios with CP violation. Some of these scenarios are already at the level of present sensitivities for direct DM searches.
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@article{arxiv.0711.2870,
title = {Particle Dark Matter Candidates},
author = {Stefano Scopel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.2870},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
7 pages, 4 figures, 3 references added. Contribution to the proceedings of the TAUP 07 conference, Sep. 11-15, Sendai, Japan