Published October 2009 | Version v1
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PAMELA and indirect dark matter searches

Creators

  • 1. INFN, Sezione di Trieste, Padriciano 99, I-34012 Trieste (Italy)
  • 2. KTH, Department of Physics, and the Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics, AlbaNova University Centre, 10691 Stockholm (Sweden)
  • 3. Department of Physics, University of Rome 'Tor Vergata', Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, I-00133 Rome (Italy)
  • 4. Department of Physics, University of Florence, Via Sansone 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Florence (Italy)
  • 5. Department of Physics, University of Naples 'Federico II', Via Cintia, I-80126 Naples (Italy)
  • 6. Lebedev Physical Institute, Leninsky Prospekt 53, RU-119991 Moscow (Russian Federation)
  • 7. Department of Physics, University of Bari, Via Amendola 173, I-70126 Bari (Italy)
  • 8. Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, Polytekhnicheskaya 26, RU-194021 St Petersburg (Russian Federation)
  • 9. INFN, Sezione di Florence, Via Sansone 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Florence (Italy)
  • 10. INFN, Sezione di Bari, Via Amendola 173, I-70126 Bari (Italy)
  • 11. INFN, Sezione di Naples, Via Cintia, I-80126 Naples (Italy)

Description

We present a review of the experimental results obtained by PAMELA in measuring the (p,p-bar) and e± abundance in cosmic rays. In this context, we discuss the interpretation of the observed anomalous positron excess in terms of the annihilation of dark matter particles as well as in terms of standard astrophysical sources. Moreover we show the constraints on dark matter models from p-bar data.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/11/10/105023

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1088/1367-2630/11/10/105023;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
New Journal of Physics
Journal Volume
11
Journal Issue
10
Journal Page Range
[25 p.]
ISSN
1367-2630

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
41047926
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Descriptors DEI
ABUNDANCE; ANNIHILATION; ASTROPHYSICS; COSMIC ELECTRONS; COSMIC POSITRONS; NONLUMINOUS MATTER
Descriptors DEC
ANTILEPTONS; ANTIMATTER; ANTIPARTICLES; COSMIC RADIATION; ELECTRONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; INTERACTIONS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; LEPTONS; MATTER; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; PHYSICS; POSITRONS; RADIATIONS; SECONDARY COSMIC RADIATION