Open AccessDark Matter: Candidates and Searches
Author(s) -
Zheng Cao
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1634/1/012158
Subject(s) - dark matter , physics , weakly interacting massive particles , cosmology , scalar field dark matter , dark fluid , mixed dark matter , astrophysics , astronomy , dark energy
Dark matter is an unknown field in astrophysics and cosmology. Various experiments to detect dark matter have already been done around the world since the hypothesis of dark matter was first proposed. In this article, several prevalent dark matter candidate theories have been reviewed, which will make contributions to the understanding of these theories, especially for beginners. The detections and methods, such as Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), have also been included.