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Snowmass 2021 Cross Frontier Report: Dark Matter Complementarity
by Antonio Boveia, Mohamed Berkat, Thomas Y. Chen, Aman Desai, Caterina Doglioni, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Susan Gardner, Stefania Gori, Joshua Greaves, Patrick Harding, Philip C. Harris, W. Hugh Lippincott, Maria Elena Monzani, Katherine Pachal, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Gray Rybka, Bibhushan Shakya, Jessie Shelton, Tracy R. Slatyer, Amanda Steinhebel, Philip Tanedo, Natalia Toro, Yun-Tse Tsai, Mike Williams, Lindley Winslow, Jaehoon Yu, Tien-Tien Yu
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Submission summary
| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Caterina Doglioni |
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| Preprint Link: | scipost_202407_00045v1 (pdf) |
| Date accepted: | April 25, 2025 |
| Date submitted: | July 24, 2024, 11:16 a.m. |
| Submitted by: | Doglioni, Caterina |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics Community Reports |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approaches: | Theoretical, Experimental, Computational, Phenomenological |
Abstract
The fundamental nature of Dark Matter is a central theme of the Snowmass 2021 process, extending across all frontiers. In the last decade, advances in detector technology, analysis techniques and theoretical modeling have enabled a new generation of experiments and searches while broadening the types of candidates we can pursue. Over the next decade, there is great potential for discoveries that would transform our understanding of dark matter. In the following, we outline a road map for discovery developed in collaboration among the frontiers. A strong portfolio of experiments that delves deep, searches wide, and harnesses the complementarity between techniques is key to tackling this complicated problem, requiring expertise, results, and planning from all Frontiers of the Snowmass 2021 process.
Published as SciPost Phys. Comm. Rep. 7 (2025)
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Strengths
As such, it is an important document that deserves to be published. While it may not represent a major original contribution to the field, it is likely to remain a valuable reference for the dark matter community—especially in the US, but also internationally—as a strategic community perspective.
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When strictly applying the SciPost acceptance criteria, I find it difficult to conclude that the paper fully satisfies any of them—except perhaps the first, which pertains to highlighting synergies. Still given the particular character of the article (a community paper on research strategy), I would still recommend publication, although I leave to the editor the final assessment of the issue.
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The paper has also been available as a preprint on arXiv since 2022. While I do believe it deserves publication as a formal reference for citation purposes, it is unclear why the authors delayed submission for so long. This delay may somewhat diminish the relevance of the work, though I leave it to the editor to assess how much weight SciPost places on these aspects.
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