Background and Technical Studies for GENIUS as a Dark Matter Experiment

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.

20 pages (latex) including 5 postscript figures and 7 tables. Submitted to NIMA

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