https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5662-y
Review
The waning of the WIMP? A review of models, searches, and constraints
1
Max Planck Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117, Heidelberg, Germany
2
Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405, Orsay, France
3
Centre de Physique Théorique, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, 91128, Palaiseau Cedex, France
4
Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, USA
5
Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, USA
* e-mail: arcadi@mpi-hd.mpg.de
Received:
12
November
2017
Accepted:
22
February
2018
Published online:
10
March
2018
Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are among the best-motivated dark matter candidates. No conclusive signal, despite an extensive search program that combines, often in a complementary way, direct, indirect, and collider probes, has been detected so far. This situation might change in near future due to the advent of one/multi-TON Direct Detection experiments. We thus, find it timely to provide a review of the WIMP paradigm with focus on a few models which can be probed at best by these facilities. Collider and Indirect Detection, nevertheless, will not be neglected when they represent a complementary probe.
© The Author(s), 2018
