Physics at Underground Laboratories: Direct Detection of Dark Matter

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Underground laboratories host two kind of experiments at the frontier of our knowledge in Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology: the direct detection of the Dark Matter of the Universe and the search for the Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay of the nuclei.

• Both experimental quests pose great technical challenges which are being addressed in different ways by an important number of groups.
• Here a updated review of the efforts being done to detect Dark Matter particles is presented, emphasizing latest achievements.