| Abstract |
There is overwhelming indirect evidence from astrophysics and cosmology
that about 95% of the universe is dark. More than 25%, and thereby
outnumbering ordinary matter by a factor of five, is made up by dark
matter which builds large-scale structures. However, the dark matter
particle, maybe realized as a Weakly Interacting Massive Particle
(WIMP), remains unknown as of today. The search for WIMP dark matter
with terrestrial detectors is currently led by ultra-sensitive
instruments which use liquid xenon as a target. The XENON1T experiment
at LNGS is the largest detector of this type and currently taking data.
I will review the principles of direct WIMP searches, present the
current status of the field and will show how we plan to cover the
entire experimentally accessible WIMP parameter space in the next decades.
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