Direct Dark Matter Searches: Fits to WIMP Candidates

Abstract

After a brief introduction to dark matter in general and to WIMPs as candidates, we review recent results of direct dark matter searches. We concentrate on older and more recent hints pointing to light WIMP's with mass below 10 GeV.

Comments: Invited review talk at the XIV International Workshop on "Neutrino Telescopes", March 15 to 18, 2011, Venice, Italy; 10 pages, 10 figures, pdproc.sty needed to typeset