Interpretation of AMS-02 results: Correlations among dark matter signals

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  De Simone, Andrea ^a,b,c   Riotto, Antonio ^d   Xue, Wei ^b,c  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

^c SEZIONE DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

^d Centre for Astroparticle Physics (CAP)   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

dark matter experiments; dark matter theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877937310     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/05/003     Document Type: Article

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