Question

2. Particle Dark Matter (a) What is a WIMP? How might they originate in the Early Universe? Why are these good candidates for dark matter? (b) What are examples of experiments to detect WIMPs? Why are they located underground (or under mountains)? What signal would the dark matter create in a WIMP detector? (c) What is the current status of WIMP experiments? That is, what results do we already have? What controversies exist among the competing experiments?

Answer 1

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