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Origin of the Positron Excess in Cosmic Rays

Origin of the Positron Excess in Cosmic Rays

We show that the positron excess measured by the PAMELA experiment in the region between 10 and 100 GeV may well be a natural consequence of the standard scenario for the origin of Galactic cosmic rays. The "excess" arises because of positrons created as secondary products of hadronic interactions inside …