Particle dark matter: Evidence, candidates and constraints
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The current status of particle dark matter, including experimental evidence and theoretical motivations, including direct and indirect detection techniques, is discussed in this paper. But the authors focus on neutralinos in models of supersymmetry and Kaluza-Klein dark matter in universal extra dimensions.About:
This article is published in Physics Reports.The article was published on 2005-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 4614 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Warm dark matter & Light dark matter.read more
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Quantum Theory of Fields
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An anomalous positron abundance in cosmic rays with energies 1.5-100 GeV
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TL;DR: It is found that the positron fraction increases sharply over much of that range, in a way that appears to be completely inconsistent with secondary sources, and is concluded that a primary source, be it an astrophysical object or dark matter annihilation, is necessary.
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Dark Matter Search Results from a One Ton-Year Exposure of XENON1T.
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Searching for dark matter annihilation from Milky Way dwarf spheroidal galaxies with six years of Fermi Large Area Telescope data
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