Shedding Light on Dark Matter

Dark Matter dominates the matter content in the Universe and is believed to be made up of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMP). Deciphering the nature of dark matter is one of the hottest quests in Physics now and is pursued by more than 30 experiments, spanning hundreds of Universities and labs in all major countries in the world. I will summarize how the leading technologies compare and compliment, including my own Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) experiment in US. I will also compare the sensitivities of the current direct detection experiments with that obtained from various indirect detection experiments and limits from the LHC.