2025/10/20 by Milena Crnogorčević, Crnogorčević, Milena
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Computational Physics and Python Applications #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2510.17473
openalex publication_date 2025/10/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/22 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
The dark matter track at ICRC~2025 showed a field in transition. Direct detection has entered the neutrino-floor era, with XENONnT and PandaX-4T now limited by Solar neutrinos. Indirect searches have become truly multimessenger, combining γ-rays, neutrinos, cosmic rays, and radio data under unified likelihoods and shared systematics. Non-WIMP candidates -- axions, sub-GeV particles, primordial black holes, macroscopic relics -- are becoming central. Across all fronts, progress depends as much on new detectors as on the coherence of shared data, methods, and analysis frameworks. Here, I distill the main experimental and conceptual shifts behind these trends, noting how assumptions have evolved since ICRC~2023 and where the next decisive advances are likely to come.