A review of indirect searches for particle dark matter

TL;DR

This review summarizes recent advances in indirect detection methods for dark matter, highlighting new observational data, constraints on particle models, and potential signals from photons, cosmic rays, and neutrinos.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of recent progress, combining observational data, simulations, and analysis of potential dark matter signals.

Findings

Strong constraints on dark matter particle models

Hints of possible dark matter signals

Advances in observational and simulation techniques

Abstract

The indirect detection of dark matter annihilation and decay using observations of photons, charged cosmic rays, and neutrinos offers a promising means of identifying the particle nature of this elusive component of the universe. The last decade has seen substantial advances in observational data sets, complemented by new insights from numerical simulations, which together have enabled for the first time strong constraints on dark matter particle models, and have revealed several intriguing hints of possible signals. This review provides an introduction to indirect detection methods and an overview of recent results in the field.