# New Directions in the Search for Dark Matter

### Submission summary

 As Contributors: Surjeet Rajendran Preprint link: scipost_202109_00034v2 Date accepted: 2022-04-13 Date submitted: 2022-04-03 22:54 Submitted by: Rajendran, Surjeet Submitted to: SciPost Physics Lecture Notes Academic field: Physics Specialties: Gravitation, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics High-Energy Physics - Phenomenology Quantum Physics Approaches: Theoretical, Experimental

### Abstract

The identification of the nature of dark matter is one of the most important problems confronting particle physics. Current observational constraints permit the mass of the dark matter to range from $\sim 10^{-22}$ eV - $10^{48}$ GeV. Given the weak nature of these bounds and the ease with which dark matter models can be constructed, it is clear that the problem can only be solved experimentally. In these lectures, I discuss methods to experimentally probe a wide range of dark matter candidates.

Published as SciPost Phys. Lect. Notes 56 (2022)