Journal
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS G-NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume 43, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/0954-3899/43/1/013001
Keywords
dark matter; dark matter searches; direct detection
Categories
Funding
- Max-Planck society
- DFG
Ask authors/readers for more resources
In recent decades, several detector technologies have been developed with the quest to directly detect dark matter interactions and to test one of the most important unsolved questions in modern physics. The sensitivity of these experiments has improved with a tremendous speed due to a constant development of the detectors and analysis methods, proving uniquely suited devices to solve the dark matter puzzle, as all other discovery strategies can only indirectly infer its existence. Despite the overwhelming evidence for dark matter from cosmological indications at small and large scales, clear evidence for a particle explaining these observations remains absent. This review summarises the status of direct dark matter searches, focusing on the detector technologies used to directly detect a dark matter particle producing recoil energies in the keV energy scale. The phenomenological signal expectations, main background sources, statistical treatment of data and calibration strategies are discussed.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available