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Dark Matter
by Marco CIRELLI, Alessandro STRUMIA, Jure ZUPAN
Submission summary
| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Marco Cirelli |
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| Preprint Link: | scipost_202505_00031v1 (pdf) |
| Date submitted: | May 15, 2025, 12:15 p.m. |
| Submitted by: | Cirelli, Marco |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics Reviews |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approaches: | Theoretical, Experimental, Phenomenological, Observational |
Abstract
We review observational, experimental and theoretical results related to Dark Matter.
Current status:
In refereeing
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This review is very timely and summarizes many important progresses in the past decades, from dark matter evidence, theoretical models, production mechanisms, detection methods and even anomalies. It would provide a comprehensive overview of the field and serve as a quite useful reference. I highly recommend it for publication.
There are some suggestions which I shall leave to the authors to decide whether they update or not. Main of the detection methods are described for particle dark matter in details. However in recent ten years, there have been increasing discussions about ultralight dark matter and primordial black holes, which although reviewed but very briefly. In particular, gravitational wave observations, like PTA, LIGO, even future LISA, may provide interesting probes.
A comment about the cold/hot dark matter in Sec. 3.3 at page 76, "DM must be cold or at least not too hot. Technically, this means that DM needs to be non-
relativistic at the time of matter-radiation equality". I think DM should also be non-relativistic below keV, much before matter-radiation equality, otherwise the matter power spectrum would be different.
There are some suggestions which I shall leave to the authors to decide whether they update or not. Main of the detection methods are described for particle dark matter in details. However in recent ten years, there have been increasing discussions about ultralight dark matter and primordial black holes, which although reviewed but very briefly. In particular, gravitational wave observations, like PTA, LIGO, even future LISA, may provide interesting probes.
A comment about the cold/hot dark matter in Sec. 3.3 at page 76, "DM must be cold or at least not too hot. Technically, this means that DM needs to be non-
relativistic at the time of matter-radiation equality". I think DM should also be non-relativistic below keV, much before matter-radiation equality, otherwise the matter power spectrum would be different.
Recommendation
Publish (meets expectations and criteria for this Journal)
Subir Sarkar on 2025-07-08 [id 5626]
There have been many reviews of dark matter from a particle physics perspective. This one stands out for several reasons:
(a) being comprehensive (513 pages!) but avoiding becoming a "tedious catalogue"
(b) being a critical assessment (rather than just citing every paper without comment)
(c) highlighting the links and synergies between various topics
(d) being up-to-date (as of 2025) ... in a rather fast-moving field
The authors have worked extensively on this subject themselves and bring complementary expertise to bear on specific topics. One may not agree with every statement in this manuscript, nevertheless it deserves publication in its present form *as soon as possible* - see point (d) above. It would set the standard expected for the new journal SciPost Physics Reviews, and be a valuable resource for both newcomers to the field as well as experienced practitioners, for some time to come.
Anonymous on 2025-07-12 [id 5639]
(in reply to Subir Sarkar on 2025-07-08 [id 5626])Dear Prof. Sarkar
I understand that it will be better to publish it sooner due to the large number of citations. Nevertheless, this is a over 400 pages paper, I think it is also important to have several other experts to check the details in different chapters.
I have got 4 referees to review the paper, who are willing to review specific chapters they are familiar with. I plan to make the decision at the middle of August.
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