Particle Dark Matter: Evidence, Candidates and Constraints

Bertone, Gianfranco; Hooper, Dan; Silk, Joseph

Particle Dark Matter: Evidence, Candidates and Constraints

Authors

Bertone, Gianfranco

Hooper, Dan

Silk, Joseph

Description

In this review article, we discuss the current status of particle dark matter, including experimental evidence and theoretical motivations. We discuss a wide array of candidates for particle dark matter, but focus on neutralinos in models of supersymmetry and Kaluza-Klein dark matter in models of universal extra dimensions. We devote much of our attention to direct and indirect detection techniques, the constraints placed by these experiments and the reach of future experimental efforts.
144 pages, 46 figures, submitted to Physics Reports