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Minimal Dark Matter predictions and the PAMELA positron excess Marco Cirelli? ? Institut de Physique Théorique, CNRS, URA 2306 CEA/Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France E-mail: marco.cirelli@cea.fr Alessandro Strumia Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università di Pisa INFN, Italia E-mail: astrumia@df.unipi.it We present Minimal Dark Matter and its univocal predictions for Dark Matter observables. Dur- ing the idm08 conference, PAMELA presented preliminary results showing an anomaly in the positron fraction: we find a good agreement, with a modest astrophysical boost factor. Identification of dark matter 2008 August 18-22, 2008 Stockholm, Sweden – Preprint number: SACLAY–t08/127 ?Speaker. ?We are indebted to Gianfranco Bertone, Torsten Bringmann, Pierre Brun and Nicolao Fornengo for very useful discussions and we thank the organizers of the idm08 conference for the very stimulating atmosphere. The work of M.C. is partially supported by the french ANR grants DARKPHYS and PHYS@COLCOS. c? Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Licence. http://pos.sissa.it/ a r X i v : 0 8 0 8 .3 8 6 7 v 1 [ a s t r o - p h ] 2 8 A u g 2 0 0 8 Minimal Dark Matter and PAMELA Marco Cirelli 1. Introduction The quest for the identification of the missing mass of the universe has been with us since many decades now [1]. While explanations in terms of modifications of Newtonian gravity or General Relativity become more and more contrived, evidence for the particle nature of such Dark Matter (DM) now comes from many astrophysical and cosmological observations. Non-baryonic new particles that may fulfill the r?le of DM have emerged in the latest decades within many Beyond the Standard Model (SM) theories, most notably supersymmetry. These constructions try to naturally explain the hierarchy between the ElectroWeak (EW) scale and the Planck scale and, in doing so, introduce a host of new particles with EW masses and inte