Background and Technical Studies for GENIUS as a Dark Matter Experiment
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2010-11-30 v1
Abstract
The GENIUS project is a proposal for a new dark matter detector, with an increased sensitivity of three orders of magnitude relative to existing direct dark matter detection experiments. We performed a technical study and calculated the main background sources for the relevant energy region in a detailed detector geometry. The achieved overall background level and detector performance confirm the outstanding potential of GENIUS as a powerful tool for the direct search of WIMPs in our Galaxy.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/9811040,
title = {Background and Technical Studies for GENIUS as a Dark Matter Experiment},
author = {L. Baudis and G. Heusser and B. Majorovits and Y. Ramachers and H. Strecker and H. V. Klapdor--Kleingrothaus},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/9811040},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
20 pages (latex) including 5 postscript figures and 7 tables. Submitted to NIMA