暗物质研究是21世纪粒子物理、天体物理和宇宙学最重要的前沿科学课题之一.暗物质被天文学中的引力效应所观察到,但对它的存在和认识仍旧是个谜.文章主要论述了对弱作用大质量暗物质粒子(WIMP)直接探测的基本原理、各种直接探测技术、当前的实验进展和发展方向.最后给出了最近的实验物理结果.
Dark matter is one of the most important basic topics of particle physics,astrophysics and cosmology in the 21st century.Its existence has been established by gravitational effects,but its identity is still a mystery.In this review we shall discuss the principle of direct detection of the weak interaction massive particle(WIMP),direct detection techniques,the current status and future developments of experimental detection,and finally some new experimental physics results.