New Directions in the Search for Dark Matter

TL;DR

This paper reviews experimental approaches to detect dark matter across an extremely broad mass range, emphasizing the importance of experimental efforts due to weak theoretical constraints.

Contribution

It introduces methods to experimentally investigate diverse dark matter candidates, highlighting the need for broad experimental searches.

Findings

Dark matter mass spans from 10^{-22} eV to 10^{48} GeV.

Current constraints are weak, making experimental detection crucial.

Various detection strategies are discussed.

Abstract

The identification of the nature of dark matter is one of the most important problems confronting particle physics. Current observational constraints permit the mass of the dark matter to range from $10^{-22}$ eV - $10^{48}$ GeV. Given the weak nature of these bounds and the ease with which dark matter models can be constructed, it is clear that the problem can only be solved experimentally. In these lectures, I discuss methods to experimentally probe a wide range of dark matter candidates.