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Minimal Dark Matter predictions and the PAMELA positron excess

Marco Cirelli
(
- Saclay, SPhT
)
,
Alessandro Strumia
(
- Pisa U. and
- INFN, Pisa
)

Aug, 2008

6 pages

Part of Proceedings, 7th International Workshop on the Identification of Dark Matter (IDM 2008) : Stockholm, Sweden, August 18-22, 2008

Published in:

PoS IDM2008 (2008) 089

Contribution to:

- IDM 2008

e-Print:

0808.3867 [astro-ph]

DOI:

10.22323/1.064.0089

Report number:

SACLAY-T08-127

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Abstract: (arXiv)

We present Minimal Dark Matter and its univocal predictions for Dark Matter observables. During the idm2008 conference, PAMELA presented preliminary results showing an excess in the positron fraction: we find a good agreement, with a modest astrophysical boost factor.

Note:

To appear in the proceedings of the Identification of Dark Matter conference (idm2008), Stockholm, 18-22 August 2008

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