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The Dark Matters at ICRC 2025

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2025-10-21 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The dark matter track at ICRC~2025 showed a field in transition. Direct detection has entered the \emph{neutrino-floor era}, with XENONnT and PandaX-4T now limited by Solar neutrinos. Indirect searches have become truly \emph{multimessenger}, combining γ\gamma-rays, neutrinos, cosmic rays, and radio data under unified likelihoods and shared systematics. Non-WIMP candidates -- axions, sub-GeV particles, primordial black holes, macroscopic relics -- are becoming central. Across all fronts, progress depends as much on new detectors as on the coherence of shared data, methods, and analysis frameworks. Here, I distill the main experimental and conceptual shifts behind these trends, noting how assumptions have evolved since ICRC~2023 and where the next decisive advances are likely to come.

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@article{arxiv.2510.17473,
  title  = {The Dark Matters at ICRC 2025},
  author = {Milena Crnogorčević},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.17473},
  year   = {2025}
}

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DM Rapporteur ICRC 2025 (23 pages incl. references)

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