TL;DR
This paper reviews the current state of direct detection efforts for classical WIMP dark matter, covering theoretical background, experimental techniques, and ongoing projects to identify dark matter particles.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive overview of the methods, challenges, and experimental landscape for detecting WIMP dark matter, serving as an educational resource.
Findings
Summarizes key detection techniques and experimental setups.
Discusses background mitigation strategies.
Highlights ongoing and planned experiments.
Abstract
One of the highest priorities in particle physics today is the identification of the constituents of dark matter. This manuscript is a supplement to pedagogical lectures given at the 2021 Les Houches Summer School on Dark Matter. The lectures cover topics related to the direct detection of WIMP dark matter, including the distribution of dark matter, nuclear scattering, backgrounds, planning and designing of experiments and a sampling of planned and ongoing experiments.
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