APPEC Dark Matter Report
Future WIMP sensitivities
APPEC -- the Astroparticle Physics European Consortium -- is an international body which promotes cooperation and coordination within the astroparticle physics community and formulates, updates and realises the European astroparticle physics strategy. A committee has been appointed by APPEC to evaluate the current status and the future of direct detection of dark matter in Europe and beyond. The report covers the direct detection of WIMP and axion dark matter. The committee was led by Leszek Roszkowski (Warsaw); the head of Freiburg's Astroparticle Physics group, Marc Schumann, was one of the authors. After extensive discussions within the community, the report has been approved and is now available online:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.07634
The report makes a number of recommendations from the perspective of a long-term future of the field. Overall, the report recommends that the direct search for dark matter particle interactions with a detector target should be given top priority in astroparticle physics, and in all particle physics, and beyond, as a positive measurement will provide the most unambiguous confirmation of the particle nature of dark matter in the Universe.
