Which fraction of the measured cosmic-ray antiprotons might be due to neutralino annihilation in the galactic halo?

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 1998, Pages

  Salati, P ^b   Donato, F ^a   Fornengo, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b LAPTH   (France)

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EID: 0001717204     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.58.123503     Document Type: Article

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