2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/37166An overview of the main strategies followed in the search for non-baryonic particle dark matter in the form of WIMPs is given. To illustrate these searches the case for Germanium ionization detectors is selected.Invited talk given at the 29th International Meeting on Fundamental Physics, Sitges (Barcelona), Feb. 2001, to be published in the ProceedingsHigh Energy Physics - Experimenttext