Small scale direct dark matter search experiments

Abstract

Experiments based on noble liquids and solid state cryogenic detectors have had a leading role in the direct detection of dark matter. But smaller scale projects can help to explore the new dark matter landscape with advanced, ultra-sensitive detectors based on recently developed technologies. Here, the physics case of different types of small scale dark matter experiments will be presented and many of them will be reviewed, highlighting the detection techniques and summarizing their properties, results and status.

Elongated Gravity Sources as an Analytical Limit for Flat Galaxy Rotation Curves

“…This behavior is exactly what is needed to produce the observed flat rotation curves. On the contrary, experimental searches for particulate dark matter at colliders [5] (through production of dark matter particles), at underground laboratories [6,7] (through direct detection by collisions with nuclei), or at gamma-ray or other particle observatories [8] (through indirect detection of presumed decay products) have all come up empty-handed.…”