Snowmass 2021 cross frontier report: Dark matter complementarity
The fundamental nature of Dark Matter is a central theme of the Snowmass 2021 process, extending across all frontiers. In the last decade, advances in detector technology, analysis techniques and theoretical modeling have enabled a new generation of experiments and searches while broadening the types of candidates we can pursue. Over the next decade, there is great potential for discoveries that would transform our understanding of dark matter. In the following, we outline a road map for discovery developed in collaboration among the frontiers. A strong portfolio of experiments that delves deep, searches wide, and harnesses the complementarity between techniques is key to tackling this complicated problem, requiring expertise, results, and planning from all Frontiers of the Snowmass 2021 process.
Authors
- Yun-Tse Tsai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7011-3551)
- Jessie Shelton (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0959-6360)
- Mohamed Berkat
- Bibhushan Shakya (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7063-7320)
- Tracy R. Slatyer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9699-9047)
- C. Doglioni (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1509-0390)
- Susan Gardner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6166-5546)
- K. Pachal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8332-243X)
- Aman A. Desai
- Philip Harris (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4369-3874)
- Thomas Y. Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0294-3614)
- A. L. Steinhebel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4080-2919)
- A. Drlica-Wagner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8251-933X)
- Joshua Greaves
- G. Rybka (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9973-1564)
- L. A. Winslow (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9970-108X)
- Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
- M. E. Monzani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8254-5308)
- Patrick Harding
- A. Boveia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6647-6699)
- Philip Tañedo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4642-2199)
- Natalia Toro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8150-3990)
- W. H. Lippincott (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7279-6090)
- T. Yu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4708-809X)
- M. Williams (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8285-3346)
- J. S. Yu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7632-0033)
- Stefania Gori (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1073-6591)
Institutions
- University of California, Riverside (US)
- Goddard Space Flight Center (US)
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US)
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (US)
- University of Kentucky (US)
- University of California, Santa Barbara (US)
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
- University of New Hampshire at Manchester (US)
- University of California, Santa Cruz (US)
- Lund University (SE)
- The University of Texas at Arlington (US)
- University of Washington (US)
- Vatican Secret Archives (VA)
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY (DE)
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US)
- University of Manchester (GB)
- University of Chicago (US)
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (US)
- The Ohio State University (US)
- The University of Adelaide (AU)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
- Columbia University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- SciPost Physics Community Reports
- Published
- 2025-05-19
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.21468/scipostphyscommrep.7
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 3.74
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- CERN
- Office of Science
- High Energy Physics