The waning of the WIMP? A review of models, searches, and constraints

• Published in: The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields Vol. 78; no. 3; pp. 203 - 57
• Main Authors: Arcadi, Giorgio, Dutra, Maíra, Ghosh, Pradipta, Lindner, Manfred, Mambrini, Yann, Pierre, Mathias, Profumo, Stefano, Queiroz, Farinaldo S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2018; Springer; Springer Nature B.V; Springer Verlag (Germany); SpringerOpen
• Subjects: Analysis; Astronomy; Astrophysics; Astrophysics and Cosmology; Constraint modelling; Dark matter; Elementary Particles; Hadrons; Heavy Ions; High Energy Physics - Experiment; High Energy Physics - Phenomenology; High Energy Physics - Theory; Measurement Science and Instrumentation; Nuclear Energy; Nuclear Physics; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Quantum Field Theories; Quantum Field Theory; Review; String Theory; Weakly interacting massive particles; pseudoscalar; direct detection; review; Higgs particle; WIMP; dark matter; experimental methods
• ISSN: 1434-6044; 1434-6052
• DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5662-y

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are among the best-motivated dark matter candidates. No conclusive signal, despite an extensive search program that combines, often in a complementary way, direct, indirect, and collider probes, has been detected so far. This situation might change in near future due to the advent of one/multi-TON Direct Detection experiments. We thus, find it timely to provide a review of the WIMP paradigm with focus on a few models which can be probed at best by these facilities. Collider and Indirect Detection, nevertheless, will not be neglected when they represent a complementary probe.