The PAMELA positron excess from annihilations into a light boson

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Cholis, Ilias ^a   Finkbeiner, Douglas P ^b   Goodenough, Lisa ^a   Weiner, Neal ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmic ray experiments; Cosmic ray theory; Dark matter experiments; Dark matter theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 75149129173     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/12/007     Document Type: Article

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