Can AMS-02 discriminate the origin of an anti-proton signal?

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2014, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Pettorino, Valeria ^a,d   Busoni, Giorgio ^b,c   Simone, Andrea De ^b,c   Morgante, Enrico ^d   Riotto, Antonio ^d   Xue, Wei ^b,c  

^a INSTITUT FÜR THEORETISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

^c SEZIONE DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

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

Author keywords

Dark matter detectors; Dark matter experiments; Dark matter theory; Supernova remnants

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908497858     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2014/10/078     Document Type: Article

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