# The Waning of the WIMP? A Review of Models, Searches, and Constraints

## TL;DR

This paper reviews the theoretical basis, current experimental efforts, and future prospects for detecting WIMP dark matter, highlighting the challenges faced due to the lack of conclusive signals despite extensive searches.

## Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of the WIMP paradigm, summarizing theoretical foundations, current detection strategies, and future experimental challenges.

## Key findings

- No conclusive WIMP detection signals yet
- Current searches place strong constraints on WIMP models
- Future experiments face significant technological and methodological challenges

## Abstract

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are among the best-motivated dark matter candidates. In light of no conclusive detection signal yet despite an extensive search program that combines, often in a complementary way, direct, indirect, and collider probes, we find it timely to give a broad overview of the WIMP paradigm. In particular, we review here the theoretical foundations of the WIMP paradigm, discuss status and prospects of various detection strategies, and explore future experimental challenges and opportunities.