The moment of truth for WIMP Dark Matter
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
2010-11-23 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We know that dark matter constitutes 85% of all the matter in the Universe, but we do not know of what it is made. Amongst the many Dark Matter candidates proposed, WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles) occupy a special place, as they arise naturally from well motivated extensions of the standard model of particle physics. With the advent of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and a new generation of astroparticle experiments, the moment of truth has come for WIMPs: either we will discover them in the next five to ten years, or we will witness the inevitable decline of WIMP paradigm.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1011.3532,
title = {The moment of truth for WIMP Dark Matter},
author = {Gianfranco Bertone},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.3532},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
To appear in Nature (Nov 18, 2010)