"SK is a 50 kilo-ton water Cherenkov detector which started operation in 1996. The detector is located in the Kamioka Observatory, 1,000 meters beneath Mt. Ikenoyama in Japan's Gifu Prefecture.
An indirect dark matter search is being performed by SK by looking for neutrinos and neutrino-induced muons from annihilations of WIMPs in the Earth, the sun, and the galaxy's
center and halo. SK has an excellent sensitivity to lower mass weakly interacting massive particles due to its lower neutrino energy threshold."
"PAMELA is a cosmic ray research detector onboard the Resurs-DK1 Russian satellite that searches for the annihilation products of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs).
PAMELA indirectly searches for the existence of dark matter by looking for antiprotons and positrons that may result from the annihilations of WIMPs."
"The MAGIC telescopes consist of two ground-based, Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes. The telescopes include nearly 1,000 individual mirrors,
together resulting in a parabolic dish with a 17-meter diameter, and a camera that detects images of gamma-ray induced air showers in blueish Cherenkov light. The telescopes measure gamma-ray sources in the
very high-energy range 30 GeV – 50 TeV. These rays may result from the annihilation of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), which are major candidates for dark matter."
"The HESS observatory uses a system of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes, located in Namibia, to investigate very high-energy cosmic gamma rays. The experiment looks
for the predicted gamma-ray annihilation signal from weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) in various regions considered to have enhanced dark matter density, including the galactic center, Sagittarius dwarf, M87, and clumps in the galactic halo."
"HPS will start hunting for new particles that mediate dark matter interactions, known as dark matter force particles. In this search for dark-matter photons, HPS will send electrons streaming into a
sheet of tungsten foil and look for electron-positron pairs resulting from the decay of a heavy photon. If these particle pairs appear some distance from the foil, that will indicate that an unseen particle—like the dark-matter photon—was created first, then flew a
certain distance before decaying into the electron-positron pair."
"GAPS is a proposed balloon-based indirect dark matter search focusing on antiparticles produced by WIMP (weakly interacting massive particle) annihilation and decay in the Galactic halo.
Unlike conventional magnetic spectrometers, GAPS uses the exotic-atom technique, making it complementary to the standard approach. The GAPS detector will use layers of lithium-doped silicon—Si(Li)—detectors surrounded by time of flight plastic scintillators."
"The Large Area Telescope (LAT), onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (FGST), works to unveil the high-energy universe. Through its space-based studies of gamma rays, FGST-LAT reveals insight into everything
from supernova remnants to active galactic nuclei. High-energy gamma rays are expected to stream from dark matter, making FGST-LAT a powerful dark matter hunter."
"CTA is a ground-based, very-high-energy gamma-ray instrument. Theoretical models predict that dark matter can annihilate or decay to detectable Standard Model particles, including a large number of
very-high-energy gamma rays. With its two telescope arrays (one in the northern hemisphere and one in the southern hemisphere), CTA will search for these gamma rays with unprecedented sensitivity, providing a tool to study the properties of dark matter particles."
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"AMS is a precision particle physics detector installed on the International Space Station. The detector measures particles (electrons, positrons, antiprotons)
and nuclei to the TeV energy range. 51 billion events have been collected and 11 million positron-electron events have been analyzed. Collisions of dark matter would produce an excess of positrons. This possibility
is being studied. AMS will be on the Space Station for at least 10 more years and will provide a sensitive search for dark matter in space."
"The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Experiment, or KATRIN, is a massive
detector based in the town of Karlsruhe, Germany, that has been designed to measure a neutrino's mass with far greater
precision than existing experiments."
"The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is the first detector of
its kind, designed to observe the cosmos from deep within the South Pole ice. An international group of scientists
responsible for the scientific research makes up the IceCube Collaboration."
ADMX is an axion (a hypothetical particle that solves both long-standing problems in nuclear
physics and could be responsible for some or all of the dark matter of the universe) haloscope, which uses a strong magnetic field to convert dark matter axions
to detectable to microwave photons."
"Gamma rays have the smallest wavelengths and the most
energy of any wave in the electromagnetic spectrum. They are produced by the hottest and most energetic objects in the
universe, such as neutron stars and pulsars, supernova explosions, and regions around black holes. On Earth, gamma waves are
generated by nuclear explosions, lightning, and the less dramatic activity of radioactive decay."
"ANTARES is a neutrino detector deep under the Mediterranean Sea, a position
optimised for the detection of neutrino flux from cosmic origins in the direction of the Southern Hemisphere of the Earth, a complement to
the South Pole neutrino detector, IceCube."
"The CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) is an experiment to
search for hypothetical particles called "axions". These have been proposed by some theoretical physicists to explain why
there is a subtle difference between matter and antimatter in processes involving the weak force, but not the strong force.
If axions exist, they could be found in the centre of the Sun and they could also make up invisible dark matter.