Lecture 22

WIMPs as Particle Dark Matter

• WIMP prodcution in the early universe
  • annihilation freezeout
  • relic abundances
• WIMP candidates from particle physics
  Supersymmetry: overviews here, here, and here
  the Man in his various guises here, here, and here,

Particle Dark Matter: WIMP Searches

• Accelerators: Tevatron and CDF at Fermilab,
  LHC and ATLAS at CERN,
  
• Direct searches: CDMS: detector, fridge and icebox at the Soudan mine
  ZEPLIN-III glamour shots at Boulby mine
  DAMA new detector installation at Gran Sasso
  CRESST
  
• Indirect (astrophysical) searches
  • cosmic rays: positrons
    PAMELA: excess positron fraction
    ATIC: excess e⁺+e^-
    but Fermi begs to differ
  • gamma-rays
    HESS TeV photons from the Galactic center
    Fermi/GLAST opens a new window on the GeV-TeV sky