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Global Dark Matter Experiments | impacts:

1. Direct Detection — WIMP / Nuclear-Recoil Experiments

Liquid xenon detectors

• XENON10 / XENON100 / XENON1T / XENONnT

• LUX / LZ

• PandaX-I / PandaX-II / PandaX-4T

• XMASS

Liquid argon detectors

• DarkSide-50

• DarkSide-20k

• DEAP-3600

• ArDM

• MiniCLEAN

Cryogenic crystal / bolometer detectors

• CDMS / SuperCDMS / SuperCDMS SNOLAB

• EDELWEISS

• CRESST / CRESST-II / CRESST-III

• COSINUS

• ROSEBUD

Bubble chamber / superheated liquid detectors

• PICASSO

• COUPP

• SIMPLE

• PICO-2L / PICO-60 / PICO-40L

Scintillator / annual modulation experiments

• DAMA/NaI

• DAMA/LIBRA

• COSINE-100

• ANAIS

• SABRE

• KIMS

Semiconductor / low-mass dark matter detectors

• DAMIC / DAMIC-M

• SENSEI

• SuperCDMS HV

• EDELWEISS-SubGeV

• NEWS-G

• CDEX

• TEXONO

Directional dark matter detectors

• DRIFT

• NEWAGE

• DMTPC

• MIMAC

• CYGNUS

2. Indirect Detection Experiments

Gamma-ray telescopes

• Fermi-LAT

• H.E.S.S.

• MAGIC

• VERITAS

• CTA — Cherenkov Telescope Array

• HAWC

• LHAASO

Neutrino telescopes

• IceCube

• ANTARES

• KM3NeT

• Baikal-GVD

• Super-Kamiokande

Cosmic-ray / antimatter detectors

• AMS-02

• PAMELA

• CALET

• DAMPE

• BESS

• GAPS

3. Collider and Accelerator Dark Matter Searches

Large collider experiments

• ATLAS — LHC

• CMS — LHC

• LHCb

• Belle II

• BaBar

Beam-dump / fixed-target / dark photon searches

• NA64

• NA62

• MiniBooNE-DM

• COHERENT dark-sector searches

• SHiP — proposed

• LDMX — proposed

• SeaQuest / DarkQuest

• HPS — Heavy Photon Search

• APEX

• MESA / MAGIX

• PADME

• BDX

4. Axion and Axion-Like Particle Experiments

Microwave cavity / haloscope searches

• ADMX

• HAYSTAC

• CAPP

• ORGAN

• QUAX

• RADES

• GrAHal

• CULTASK

Dielectric haloscope / broadband axion searches

• MADMAX

• BREAD

• BRASS

Solar axion / helioscope experiments

• CAST

• IAXO — planned

• BabyIAXO

Light-shining-through-wall experiments

• ALPS-I

• ALPS-II

• OSQAR

Nuclear magnetic resonance / ultralight-field searches

• CASPEr

• GNOME

• ABRACADABRA

• DMRadio

• SHAFT

• BASE axion searches

5. Dark Matter Astronomy / Gravitational Searches

These do not detect particles directly but constrain compact-object dark matter and dark-matter structure.

• MACHO

• EROS

• OGLE

• Subaru HSC microlensing

• Gaia dark-matter searches

• LSST / Vera Rubin Observatory dark-matter mapping

• Euclid

• DES — Dark Energy Survey

• KiDS

• Planck CMB constraints

6. Notable Historical or Earlier Experiments

• Heidelberg-Moscow

• IGEX

• ZEPLIN-I / ZEPLIN-II / ZEPLIN-III

• UKDMC

• Homestake-related underground searches

• LUX predecessor programs

• CDMS-I / CDMS-II

• XENON10 / XENON100

• EDELWEISS-I / II

• CRESST-I / II

Major current flagship experiments: 

• LZ, XENONnT, 

• PandaX-4T, 

• DarkSide-20k, 

• SuperCDMS SNOLAB, 

• PICO, 

• DAMIC-M, 

• SENSEI, 

• ADMX, 

• HAYSTAC, 

• IceCube, 

• Fermi-LAT, 

• AMS-02, 

• ATLAS, and 

• CMS