Looking for dark matter on the light side

Abstract

Among the prominent low-mass dark matter candidates is the QCD axion but also other light and weakly interacting particles beyond the Standard Model. We review briefly the case for such dark matter and give an overview on most recent experimental efforts within laboratory searches, where we focus on experiments exploiting a potential electromagnetic coupling of such particles.

Comments: 7 pages, 2 figures, contribution to the 24th European Cosmic Ray Symposium, v2: accepted version