Dark Matter Direct Detection With Low Temperature Detectors
  Low Temperature Detectors (LTDs) offer the best signal-to-noise performance
and thus, lowest energy threshold among other particle detection technologies
available today. The excellent background rejection provided by these detectors
is essential to search for very rare and very low energy recoils expected from
dark matter interactions. Furthermore, due to their very good event-by-event
background rejection capabilities, LTDs do not heavily rely on self-shielding
in order to mitigate radioactive backgrounds (in contrast with the monolithic
liquid Noble Gas detectors) thus they can be more easily prototyped and tested
for basic detector performance. A review of the status and prospects of the
major Dark Matter search experiments using LTD technologies is presented here.
