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《A review of indirect searches for particle dark matter》

  • 来源专题：中国科学院紫金山天文台科技信息监测服务
  • 编译者： zhoubz
  • 发布时间：2016-04-11

  • The indirect detection of dark matter annihilation and decay using observations of photons, charged cosmic rays, and neutrinos offers a promising means of identifying the particle nature of this elusive component of the universe. The last decade has seen substantial advances in observational data sets, complemented by new insights from numerical simulations, which together have enabled for the first time strong constraints on dark matter particle models, and have revealed several intriguing hints of possible signals. This review provides an introduction to indirect detection methods and an overview of recent results in the field.

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