The DOI matches its Crossref record; 6 of the 6 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Dark Matter Candidates from Particle Physics and Methods of Detection
Open accessAbstract
The identity of dark matter is a question of central importance in both astrophysics and particle physics. In the past, the leading particle candidates were cold and collisionless, and typically predicted missing energy signals at particle colliders. However, recent progress has greatly expanded the list of well-motivated candidates and the possible signatures of dark matter. This review begins with a brief summary of the standard model of particle physics and its outstanding problems. I then discuss several dark matter candidates motivated by these problems, including weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), superWIMPs, light gravitinos, hidden dark matter, sterile neutrinos, and axions. For each of these, I critically examine the particle physics motivations and present their expected production mechanisms, basic properties, and implications for direct and indirect detection, particle colliders, and astrophysical observations. Upcoming experiments will discover or exclude many of these candidates, and progress may open up an era of unprecedented synergy between studies of the largest and smallest observable length scales.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant
Riess, A. G., Filippenko, A. V., Challis, P., Clocchiatti, A., Diercks, A., Garnavich, P. M., Gilliland, R. L., Hogan, C. J., Jha, S., Kirshner, R. P., et al. (1998) · The Astronomical Journal · doi:10.1086/300499 · Cited by 19,704
Measurements of Ω and Λ from 42 High‐Redshift Supernovae
Perlmutter, S., Aldering, G., Goldhaber, G., Knop, R. A., Nugent, P., Castro, P. G., Deustua, S., Fabbro, S., Goobar, A., Groom, D. E., et al. (1999) · The Astrophysical Journal · doi:10.1086/307221 · Cited by 18,062
Rotation of the Andromeda Nebula from a Spectroscopic Survey of Emission Regions
Rubin, V. C., & Ford, W. K., Jr. (1970) · The Astrophysical Journal · doi:10.1086/150317 · Cited by 1,942
The Cosmic Microwave Background Spectrum from the Full COBE FIRAS Data Set
Fixsen, D. J., Cheng, E. S., Gales, J. M., Mather, J. C., Shafer, R. A., & Wright, E. L. (1996) · The Astrophysical Journal · doi:10.1086/178173 · Cited by 1,780 · cited 1×
“The current bound is μ < 9 × 10−5 (159).”
Dimensionless constants, cosmology, and other dark matters
Tegmark, M., Aguirre, A., Rees, M. J., & Wilczek, F. (2006) · Physical Review D · doi:10.1103/physrevd.73.023505 · Cited by 401 · cited 1×
“This latter possibility has some theoretical attractions, as it implies fa near mGUT ' 10(16) GeV may be allowed and provides an avenue for anthropic selection effects to favor axion densities near the observed value (250; 251).”
BackgroundDetailed Mass Map of CL 0024+1654 from Strong Lensing
Tyson, J. A., Kochanski, G. P., & Dell'Antonio, I. P. (1998) · The Astrophysical Journal · doi:10.1086/311314 · Cited by 335
Cited by
Dark matter self-interactions and small scale structure
Tulin, S., & Yu, H.-B. (2018) · Physics Reports · doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2017.11.004 · Cited by 1,111
Search for Low-Mass Weakly Interacting Massive Particles with SuperCDMS
Agnese, R., Anderson, A. J., Asai, M., Balakishiyeva, D., Basu Thakur, R., Bauer, D. A., Beaty, J., Billard, J., Borgland, A., Bowles, M. A., et al. (2014) · Physical Review Letters · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.112.241302 · Cited by 517
Liebling, S. L., & Palenzuela, C. (2017) · Living Reviews in Relativity · doi:10.1007/s41114-017-0007-y · Cited by 371
The ATLAS collaboration, Aaboud, M., Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdinov, O., Abeloos, B., Abidi, S. H., AbouZeid, O. S., Abraham, N. L., Abramowicz, H., et al. (2018) · Journal of High Energy Physics · doi:10.1007/jhep01(2018)126 · Cited by 292
Experimental constraint on dark matter detection with optical atomic clocks
Wcisło, P., Morzyński, P., Bober, M., Cygan, A., Lisak, D., Ciuryło, R., & Zawada, M. (2016) · Nature Astronomy · doi:10.1038/s41550-016-0009 · Cited by 116
Metadata
- Authors
- Feng, J. L.
- Venue
- Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 2010-08-01
- Volume
- 48
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 495-545
- ISSN
- 0066-4146 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-4282
- OpenAlex
- W2110352019
- Cited by
- 1,448
- References
- 6
- FWCI
- 4.64
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Dark Matter Candidates from Particle Physics and Methods of Detection. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1146/annurev-astro-082708-101659
- The paper
- Feng, J. L. (2010). Dark Matter Candidates from Particle Physics and Methods of Detection. Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-astro-082708-101659
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
