Particle Dark Matter: the state of the art

TL;DR

This paper reviews the current understanding and experimental efforts in particle dark matter detection, highlighting recent results and strategies across direct, indirect, and collider searches.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in particle dark matter research, emphasizing recent experimental hints and detection methods.

Findings

Recent experimental hints for dark matter detection

Overview of direct and indirect detection strategies

Summary of collider production searches

Abstract

Although well established observations on cosmological, cluster, and galactic scales strongly suggest the existence of dark matter (DM), our understanding of its non-gravitational properties is still lacking. I review basic aspects of particle dark matter and detection strategies, outlining the state of the art for searches in direct detection experiments, indirect observations, and particle production at colliders. A particular focus is dedicated to recent experimental results which could have provided hints for unveiling the DM nature.