Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are leading candidates for the dominant part of the mass density of the Universe. Here we will review direct WIMP detection techniques by giving examples of currently running experiments, and present the status of the most promising future projects.

Background & Aims of the Study: Among different kinds of air pollutants, Particle matters due to their proved destructive impacts on human health and their various sources like transportation attract wide attention. The objective of this work is determining the real value of particle matters in one of the important and busy roads in Iran (Sari- Qaemshahr ro...

The QCD equation of state is not often discussed in cosmology. However, the relic density of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) depends on the entropy and the expansion rate of the Universe when they freeze out, at a temperature in the range 400 MeV – 40GeV, where QCD corrections are still important. We use recent analytic and lattice calculations of the QCD pressure to produce a new ...

There is almost universal agreement among cosmologists that most of the matter in the Universe is dark, and there are very good reasons to believe that most of this dark matter must be nonbaryonic. The two leading candidates for this dark matter are axions and weakly-interacting massive particles (WIMPs), such as the neutralino in supersymmetric extensions of the standard model. I discuss the a...

An ever-increasing body of evidence suggests that weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) constitute the bulk of the matter in the Universe. We illustrate how experimental data, dimensional analysis and Standard Model particle physics are sufficient to evaluate and compare the potential of detectors searching for such particles either directly (e.g. by their scattering in germanium detecto...

Speaker: Atsuto Suzuki Title: The 21st Century COE Program: Exploring New Science by Bridging Particle-Matter Hierarchy Abstract: The project: Exploring New Science by Bridging Particle-Matter Hierarchy started up as the 21th Century Center of Excellence (COE) program. This program aims at exploring particle-, nuclear, condensed matterand astro-physics as well as matter science interdisciplinar...

According to astrophysical and cosmological observations, about 20 percent of the total energy in the universe is contributed by dark matter, which, within present observational limits, only exhibits gravitational interaction. Meanwhile, the Standard Model of elementary particles don’t contain such weakly-interacting constituents. To solve this mystery several schemes extending the Standard Mod...

We develop theory leading to an ability to catalog types of elementary particles. The resulting catalog provides for known interaction-mediating bosons, non-traditional interactioncarrying bosons, and fermions. Ratios of theoretical numbers of analogs of various types of particles match observed ratios of densities for baryonic matter, dark matter, and dark energy.

The dynamics of the universe may be dominated by novel weakly interacting elementary particles, by baryons in an invisible form, by black holes, and globally by vacuum energy. The main arguments for and against such hypotheses are reviewed.

We discuss the possibility to observe the products of dark matter annihilation that was going on in the early Universe. Of all the particles that could be generated by this process we consider only photons, as they are both uncharged and easily detectable. The earlier the Universe was, the higher the dark matter concentration n and the annihilation rate (proportional to n) were. However, the em...