Searching for WIMP Dark Matter: The case for Germanium Ionization Detectors

2001/11/28 by A. Morales, Morales, A.
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #hep-ex

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ex/0111089

Invited talk given at the 29th International Meeting on Fundamental Physics, Sitges (Barcelona), Feb. 2001, to be published in the Proceedings

arxiv created 2001/11/28 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

An overview of the main strategies followed in the search for non-baryonic particle dark matter in the form of WIMPs is given. To illustrate these searches the case for Germanium ionization detectors is selected.

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