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Ultrahigh energy cosmic rays from dark matter annihilation

Astrophysics 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

Annihilation of clumped superheavy dark matter provides an interesting explanation for the origin of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays. The predicted anisotropy signal provides a unique signature for this scenario.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0205158,
  title  = {Ultrahigh energy cosmic rays from dark matter annihilation},
  author = {R. Dick and P. Blasi and E. W. Kolb},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0205158},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the proceedings of Dark Matter 2002: Sources and Detection of Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe