Cold Dark Matter and Neutralinos

Abstract

Neutralinos are natural candidates for cold dark matter in many realizations of supersymmetry. We briefly review our recent results in the evaluation of neutralino relic abundance and direct detection rates in a class of supergravity models.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, uses espcrc2.sty. Proc. of "Sources and detection of dark matter and dark energy in the Universe (DM2002)". The version on the archive has low-resolution figures. The paper with high-resolution figures can be found at http://www.to.infn.it/~fornengo/proceedings/marinadelrey02.ps.gz or through http://www.to.infn.it/astropart