Cold Relics: WIMPS

• annihilation requirements
• cold relic dark matter abundance freezeout
• the WIMP miracle

Particle Dark Matter: WIMP Searches

• Accelerators: Large Hadron Collider
• Direct Detection of WIMP scattering
  • XENON
  • SuperCDMS
  • CoGeNT
  • claimed detection(!): DAMA/LIBRA
• Indirect Detection of WIMP annihilations
  • gamma rays: Fermi sky; Galactic Center anomaly
  • cosmic rays: positron anomaly PAMELA detection AMS confirmation