The 'PAMELA anomaly' indicates a nearby cosmic ray accelerator

Cosmic Rays for Particle and Astroparticle Physics - Proceedings of the 12th ICATPP Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 535-543

  Mertsch, P ^a   Sarkar, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dark matter indirect detection; Galactic cosmic rays

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; ELECTRONS; GALAXIES; POSITRONS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SUPERNOVAE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COSMIC RAY ELECTRONS; FREE PARAMETERS; GALACTIC COSMIC RAYS; INDIRECT DETECTION; SECONDARY ELECTRONS; SOURCE DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTIC UNCERTAINTIES; SUPERNOVA REMNANTS;

COSMIC RAYS;

EID: 84885917572     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1142/9789814329033_0066     Document Type: Conference Paper

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