Indirect Searches for Dark Matter: a status review

TL;DR

This review summarizes recent experimental results and theoretical developments in indirect dark matter searches, highlighting key findings, challenges, and future directions in the field.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of the current status, recent results, and emerging models in indirect dark matter detection efforts.

Findings

Recent experimental results show mixed signals and no definitive dark matter detection.

Uncertainties in astrophysical sources and particle physics models complicate interpretations.

Emerging model-building directions aim to address current phenomenological challenges.

Abstract

I review in a schematic way the current status of indirect searches for Dark Matter: I list the main relevant experimental results of the recent years and I discuss the excitements and disappointments that their phenomenological interpretations in terms of almost-standard annihilating Dark Matter have brought along. I then try to individuate the main directions which have emerged from the recent very intense model-building activity. In passing, I list the main sources of uncertainties that affect this kind of searches.