Particle Dark Matter: Status and Searches (Pearl Sandick, 2010)

Particle Dark Matter: Status and Searches

Authors:
Pearl Sandick

Abstract: A brief overview is given of the phenomenology of particle dark matter and
the properties of some of the most widely studied dark matter candidates.
Recent developments in direct and indirect dark matter searches are discussed.

Comments: 13 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the
ASP conference proceedings of the "Frank N. Bash Symposium 2009: New
Horizons in Astronomy", 18-20 Oct. 2009, eds. L. Stanford, L. Hao, Y.
Mao, J. Green
Subjects: Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
Report number: UTTG-01-10, TCC-001-10
Cite as: arXiv:1001.0942v1 [astro-ph.CO]