Introduction to the special issue of Modern Physics Letters A "Indirect dark matter searches"

TL;DR

This paper introduces a special issue focusing on indirect methods to detect and understand dark matter, emphasizing the importance of nontrivial probes beyond direct searches.

Contribution

It provides an overview of various indirect detection techniques and their significance in exploring dark matter beyond the Standard Model.

Findings

Highlights the role of indirect detection in dark matter research

Discusses nontrivial probes for dark matter nature

Emphasizes the limitations of direct detection methods

Abstract

The nature of cosmological dark matter finds its explanation in physics beyond the Standard model of elementary particles. The landscape of dark matter candidates contains a wide variety of species, either elusive or hardly detectable in direct experimental searches. Even in case, when such searches are possible the interpretation of their results implies additional sources of information, which provide indirect effects of dark matter. Some nontrivial probes for the nature of the dark matter are presented in the present issue.