Decaying dark matter and the PAMELA anomaly

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Ibarra, Alejandro ^a   Tran, David ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cosmic rays; Cosmology of theories beyond the SM; dark matter

Indexed keywords

EID: 65649139971     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/02/021     Document Type: Article

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