Direct Detection Prospects for the Cosmic Neutrino Background and Other Cosmic Relics

The Cosmic Neutrino Background is a solid prediction of the Standard Model of Cosmology and Particle Physics. There is plenty of indirect evidence for its existence but so far it escaped direct detection. I will explain the difficulties in such an endeavor and present some recent ideas and proposals for it. Interestingly, some of the proposals could act simultaneously as a dark matter experiment.