The direct WIMP dark matter search experiments are reviewed. Recently, there are a few experiments claiming the low mass dark matter and also a few experiments which found no evidence for such indications. Current sensitivity limit for the search for dark matter in the mass range between a few tens of GeV to TeV range reached to 7 × 10~(?45) cm~2 for 50 GeV WIMP mass. The XMASS experiment using 100 kg of liquid Xenon as a fiducial volume has completed the construction and now is in a commissioning phase. Calibration, detector tunings, software developments and understanding backgrounds are going on. The target sensitivity is a few ×10~(?45)cm~2.
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