(I am a physicist who used to work on a WIMP detector). WIMP funding has certainly gotten the largest share of funding. Part of the reason is probably that we k

(I am a physicist who used to work on a WIMP detector). WIMP funding has certainly gotten the largest share of funding. Part of the reason is probably that we know how to build detectors good enough to reach a swath of parameter space and the relative popularity of supersymmetry. I've heard some people suggest that part of the reason for funding such expensive WIMP experiments is that we know exactly where the limits of the detection technique lie and they are reachable given enough money.