Analysis of Dark Matter Candidates and Detection Scenarios

Abstract

In recent years, the observations collected by the state-of-art detectors have shown that there is considerable amount of invisible matter in our universe, which is named as dark matter. The study of dark matter has become one of the main research directions nowadays. Contemporarily, there are many particle models are considered as candidate of dark matter, including the models of axion, sterile neutrino, and Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) e.g., inert Higgs boson, lightest Kaluza-Klein particle and neutralino in supersymmetry. Furthermore, there are also many experiments and measurements of axions and WIMPs, including axion haloscope ADMX, axion helioscope CAST, and WIMP nuclear recoil detection experiments, such as LUX-ZEPLIN and DarkSide-50. In this paper, the basic model of above candidates will be introduced. In addition, discussion about the additional parity-like symmetry for WIMP model building, shortage of the experiments and the future upgraded dark matter experiments will also be presented. Overall, these results shed light on guiding further exploration of dark matter detection and searching.