大质量弱相互作用粒子（Weakly interacting massive particles，简称WIMP），是一种仍然停留在理论阶段的粒子，是暗物质最有希望的候选者。理论预言这种粒子应该有以下两个特点：

由于它们不参与电磁力作用，因此无法被直接探测到；由于它们不参与强核力作用，因此它们基本上与普通物质不发生相互作用；由于它们较大的质量，因此它们运动的速度相对缓慢，因而能够成团聚集。根据以上特点，WIMP被认为是最有可能的“冷暗物质”候选者。

现在很多实验正在寻找在理论上的“大质量弱相互作用粒子”（WIMPS）的粒子，它最有可能是暗物质。各个实验在地下的那些订做的设备全都等着一颗“大质量弱相互作用粒子”撞击原子核并引起一次反弹的时刻的到来。这样的实验必须在地下进行，以防止宇宙射线干扰结果。

In particle physics and astrophysics, weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs, are among the last hypothetical particle physics candidates for dark matter. The term “WIMP” is given to a dark matter particle that was produced by falling out of thermal equilibrium with the hot dense plasma of the early universe, although it is often used to refer to any dark matter candidate that interacts with standard particles via a force similar in strength to the weak nuclear force. Its name comes from the fact that obtaining the correct abundance of dark matter today via thermal production requires a self-annihilation cross section of , which is roughly what is expected for a new particle in the 100 GeV mass range that interacts via the electroweak force. Because supersymmetric extensions of the standard model of particle physics readily predict a new particle with these properties, this apparent coincidence is known as the “WIMP miracle”, and a stable supersymmetric partner has long been a prime WIMP candidate. However, recent null results from direct detection experiments including LUX and SuperCDMS, along with the failure to produce evidence of supersymmetry in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment has cast doubt on the simplest WIMP hypothesis. Experimental efforts to detect WIMPs include the search for products of WIMP annihilation, including gamma rays, neutrinos and cosmic rays in nearby galaxies and galaxy clusters; direct detection experiments designed to measure the collision of WIMPs with nuclei in the laboratory, as well as attempts to directly produce WIMPs in colliders, such as the LHC.