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Anti-Matter in Cosmic Rays : Backgrounds and Signals

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-05-20 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

Recent PAMELA and ATIC data seem to indicate an excess in positron cosmic rays above approximately 10 GeV which might be due to galactic Dark Matter particle annihilation. However the background of this signal suffers many uncertainties that make our task difficult in constraining Dark Matter or any other astrophysical explanation for these recent surprising data.

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@article{arxiv.0905.2144,
  title  = {Anti-Matter in Cosmic Rays : Backgrounds and Signals},
  author = {Timur Delahaye and Pierre Brun and Fiorenza Donato and Nicolao Fornengo and Julien Lavalle and Roberto Lineros and Richard Taillet and Pierre Salati},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.2144},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Proceedings for XLIVemes rencontres de Moriond, Electroweak Interactions And Unified Theories session