Tools for Dark Matter in Particle and Astroparticle Physics

Abstract

Despite several indirect confirmations of the existence of dark matter, the properties of a new dark matter particle are still largely unknown. Several experiments are currently searching for this particle underground in direct detection, in space and on earth in indirect detection and at the LHC. A confirmed signal could select a model for dark matter among the many extensions of the standard model. In this paper we present a short review of the public codes for computation of dark matter observables.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of 13th International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research, February 2010, Jaipur, Indi