"Version: 20160801"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Observational and theoretical motivation for particle dark matter -- 2.1. Gravitational evidence for dark matter halos -- 2.2. Weakly interacting massive particles -- 2.3. Other particle dark matter candidat…