Particle Dark Matter Candidates
Stefano Scopel (Korea Inst. Advanced Study, Seoul)
TL;DR
This paper reviews popular particle cold dark matter candidates with detectable interactions, discussing their properties, variations, and current experimental sensitivities, highlighting the neutralino as the most favored candidate.
Contribution
It provides a concise overview of various particle dark matter candidates with detectable interactions, emphasizing recent developments and experimental prospects.
Findings
Neutralino remains the most popular dark matter candidate.
Several scenarios are within current experimental sensitivities.
Different neutralino models have varying detection prospects.
Abstract
I give a short overview on some of the favorite particle Cold Dark Matter candidates today, focusing on those having detectable interactions: the axion, the KK-photon in Universal Extra Dimensions, the heavy photon in Little Higgs and the neutralino in Supersymmetry. The neutralino is still the most popular, and today is available in different flavours: SUGRA, nuSUGRA, sub-GUT, Mirage mediation, NMSSM, effective MSSM, scenarios with CP violation. Some of these scenarios are already at the level of present sensitivities for direct DM searches.
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