Discriminating the source of high-energy positrons with AMS-02

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Pato, Miguel ^a,b,c   Lattanzi, Massimiliano ^d   Bertone, Gianfranco ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUT D'ASTROPHYSIQUE DE PARIS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cosmic ray experiments; Cosmic ray theory; Dark matter experiments; Pulsar magnetosphere

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651518446     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/12/020     Document Type: Article

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