MultiDark

MultiDark (MULTImessenger Approach for DARK Matter Detection) is a Spanish project, with a stated goal of contributing to the identification and detection of dark matter.^[1]

History

The project is a grouping effort, involving many researchers in the Spanish community with a special interest in dark Matter. It began on 17 December 2009 and is funded for five years. The project is supported by Consolider-Ingenio, a programme of the Ministry of Economy and Finance.^[2]

Goals

• To analyse in detail the most plausible candidates for dark matter.
• To investigate how they form the dark halos that are believed to surround galaxies.
• To contribute to the development of experiments to detect dark matter.

References

Further reading

• Bertone, Gianfranco (2010). Particle Dark Matter: Observations, Models and Searches. Cambridge University Press. p. 762. ISBN 978-0-521-76368-4. 
• Nicolao Fornengo (2008). "Status and perspectives of indirect and direct dark matter searches". Adv. Space Res. 41: 2010–2018. arXiv:astro-ph/0612786. Bibcode:2008AdSpR..41.2010F. doi:10.1016/j.asr.2007.02.067.  Invited talk at the 36th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Beijing, China, 16–23 July 2006
• Carlos Munoz (2002). "The Enigma of the Dark Matter". Contemporary Physics. 43: (2002) 51–62. arXiv:hep-ph/0110122. Bibcode:2002ConPh..43...51K. doi:10.1080/00107510110102290. 
• Carlos Munoz (2004). "Dark matter detection in the light of recent experimental results". Int. J. Mod. Phys. A19: (2004) 3093–3170. arXiv:hep-ph/0309346. Bibcode:2004IJMPA..19.3093M. doi:10.1142/S0217751X04018154. 

External links

• Multimessenger Approach for Dark Matter Detection. Spanish Project of the Consolider-Ingenio 2010 Programme

Dark matter
Forms of dark matter	Baryonic dark matter Cold dark matter Hot dark matter Light dark matter Mixed dark matter Warm dark matter Self-interacting dark matter Scalar field dark matter
Hypothetical particles	Axino Axion Dark photon Holeum LSP Minicharged particle Neutralino Sterile neutrino SIMP WIMP
Theories and objects	Cuspy halo problem Dark fluid Dark galaxy Dark matter halo Dark radiation Dark star Dwarf galaxy problem ELKO field Halo mass function Massive compact halo object Mirror matter Navarro–Frenk–White profile Scalar field dark matter
Search experiments	Direct detection ANAIS ArDM ADMX CDEX CDMS CoGeNT COUPP CRESST DAMA/LIBRA DAMA/NaI DarkSide DEAP DMTPC DRIFT EDELWEISS EURECA KIMS LUX LZ PandaX PICO SIMPLE UKDMC WARP XENON ZEPLIN-III Indirect detection AMS-02 ATIC CALET CAST DAMPE IceCube MOA OGLE PAMELA Other projects MultiDark PVLAS SNOLAB
Potential dark galaxies	HE0450-2958 HVC 127-41-330 Smith's Cloud VIRGOHI21
Related	Antimatter Dark energy Exotic matter Galaxy formation and evolution Illustris project