Dark Matter 2013

Understand

This article reviews the status of the exciting and fastly evolving field of dark matter research as of summer 2013, when it was discussed at ICRC 2013 in Rio de Janeiro.

• It focuses on the three main avenues to detect WIMP dark matter: direct detection, indirect detection and collider searches.
• The article is based on the dark matter rapporteur talk summarizing the presentations given at the conference, filling some gaps for completeness.