1997/03/07 by Manuel Drees, Drees, Manuel
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9703260
13 pages, LaTeX with equation.sty, no figures; invited talk given at the 12th DAE Symposium, Guwahati, Assam, India, Dec. 1996
arxiv created 1997/03/07 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
After a short review of the arguments for the existence of Particle Dark Matter in the Universe, I list the most plausible candidates provided by particle physics, i.e. neutrinos, axions, and WIMPs. In each case I briefly describe how to estimate the relic density, and discuss attempts at detecting these particles. At the end I discuss my personal favorite, the lightest supersymmetric particle, in a little more detail.