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Abstract |
Antimatter in cosmic rays is a powerful probe for the indirect
detection of Dark Matter. To constrain the background from secondary
antiparticles, produced during cosmic ray propagation through the
interstellar medium, the related cross sections need to be determined
more precisely at accelerator facilities. The LHCb experiment
currently offers the unique fixed-target facility exploiting the beam
energy provided by the LHC and can reproduce cosmic collisions
between protons at the TeV scale and gas targets of helium and, soon,
hydrogen and deuterium. The status and prospects for this campaign of
antimatter production measurements will be discussed.
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