GENIUS: the first real-time detector for solar pp-neutrinos?

Abstract

The GENIUS project is a proposal for a large supersensitive Germanium detector system for WIMP and double beta decay searches with a much increased sensitivity relative to existing and other future experiments. In this paper, the possibility to detect low energy solar neutrinos with GENIUS in real-time through elastic neutrino-electron scattering is studied.

14 pages, latex, 6 eps figures, requires iopconf1.sty. To appear in Proceedings of Beyond the Desert '99, Second International Conference on Physics beyond the Standard Model, Castle Ringberg, Tegernsee, Germany, 6-12 June 1999