Experimental limits on WIMP and SIMP dark matter

The particle which constitutes probably more than 90% of the mass of the universe is something unknown in the Standard Model of particle physics. Wide-ranging searches, especially by non-accelerator experiments using Ge and Si ionization detectors, and recent accelerator experiments, particularly at SLC and LEP, have eliminated as dark matter many classes of candidates, such as weak isodoublet neutrinos more massive than ∼30 eV/c2. Particles in ranges including 12 orders of magnitude in mass and 20 orders of magnitude in cross section have been excluded as dark matter. (author)