Status of direct and indirect dark matter searches

TL;DR

This paper reviews the current landscape of dark matter searches across direct, indirect, and accelerator methods, emphasizing their challenges, limitations, and the importance of their complementary development.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of the status and challenges of various dark matter search techniques, highlighting their complementary roles.

Findings

Different search methods face unique challenges and limitations.

The approaches are highly complementary and should be developed concurrently.

Current experiments have yet to definitively detect dark matter.

Abstract

I review the current status of dark matter searches using direct, indirect and accelerator techniques. A detailed review of individual experiments is beyond the scope of these proceedings. I focus instead on the challenges (sometimes limitations) faced by each of the approaches, which is what make them complementary, and the reason we must ensure that they are developed concurrently.