Recent Developments in Dark Matter Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
After a short review of the arguments for the existence of Particle Dark Matter in the Universe, I list the most plausible candidates provided by particle physics, i.e. neutrinos, axions, and WIMPs. In each case I briefly describe how to estimate the relic density, and discuss attempts at detecting these particles. At the end I discuss my personal favorite, the lightest supersymmetric particle, in a little more detail.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9703260,
title = {Recent Developments in Dark Matter Physics},
author = {Manuel Drees},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9703260},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
13 pages, LaTeX with equation.sty, no figures; invited talk given at the 12th DAE Symposium, Guwahati, Assam, India, Dec. 1996