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Volume 36, 2009
Dark Energy and Dark Matter: Observations, Experiments and Theories
Page(s) 285 - 290
DOI 10.1051/eas/0936040
Published online 30 May 2009

Dark Energy and Dark Matter: Observations, Experiments and Theories
E. Pécontal, T. Buchert, Ph. Di Stefano and Y. Copin (eds)
EAS Publications Series, 36 (2009) 285-290

DOI: 10.1051/eas/0936040

On the antimatter signatures of the cosmological dark matter subhalos

J. Lavalle

Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica, Università di Torino & INFN, via Giuria 1, 10125 Torino, Italy;

lavalle@to.infn.it

Published online: 30 May 2009

Abstract
While the PAMELA collaboration has recently confirmed the cosmic ray positron excess, it is interesting to review the effects of dark matter subhalos on the predicted antimatter signals. We recall that, according to the general subhalo properties as inferred from theoretical cosmology, the enhancement cannot be larger than ~20 for the antimatter yield. This bound is obviously different from what is found for $\gamma$-rays. We also show some predictions for supersymmetric benchmark models observable at the LHC and derived in the cosmological N-body framework, but remind the existing discrepancy between the profiles derived from N-body experiments and the current observations.



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