M Boezio et al 2009 New J. Phys. 11 105023 doi:10.1088/1367-2630/11/10/105023
M Boezio1, M Pearce2, P Picozza3,4, R Sparvoli3,4, P Spillantini5,6, O Adriani5,6, G C Barbarino7,8, G A Bazilevskaya9, R Bellotti10,11, E A Bogomolov12, L Bonechi5,6, M Bongi6, V Bonvicini1, S Borisov3,4,13, S Bottai6, A Bruno10,11, F Cafagna11, D Campana8, R Carbone3,8, P Carlson2, M Casolino4, G Castellini14, L Consiglio8, M P De Pascale3,4, C De Santis4, N De Simone3,4, V Di Felice3,4, A M Galper13, L Grishantseva13, W Gillard2, P Hofverberg2, S V Koldashov13, S Y Krutkov12, A N Kvashnin9, A Leonov13, V Malvezzi4, L Marcelli4, W Menn15, V V Mikhailov13, E Mocchiutti1, N Mori6, N Nikonov3,4,12, G Osteria8, P Papini6, M Ricci16, S B Ricciarini6, M Simon15, Y I Stozhkov9, A Vacchi1, E Vannuccini6, G Vasilyev11, S A Voronov13, Y T Yurkin13, G Zampa1, N Zampa1 and V G Zverev13
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We present a review of the experimental results obtained by PAMELA in measuring the
and e± abundance in cosmic rays. In this context, we discuss the interpretation of the observed anomalous positron excess in terms of the annihilation of dark matter particles as well as in terms of standard astrophysical sources. Moreover we show the constraints on dark matter models from
data.
96.50.sb Composition, energy spectra and interactions
95.35.+d Dark matter (stellar, interstellar, galactic, and cosmological)
Issue 10 (October 2009)
Received 7 May 2009
Published 16 October 2009
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