GENIUS and the Genius TF: A New Observatory for WIMP Dark Matter and Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

Abstract

The GENIUS proposal is described and some of it's physics potential is outlined. Also in the light of the contradictive results from the DAMA and CDMS experiments the Genius TF, a new experimental setup is proposed. The Genius TF could probe the DAMA evidence region using the WIMP nucleus recoil signal and WIMP annual modulation signature simultaneously. Besides that it can prove the long term feasibility of the detector technique to be implemented into the GENIUS setup and will in this sense be a first step towards the realization of the GENIUS experiment.

10 pages, revtex, 4 figures, Talk was presented at 3rd International Workshop on the Identification of Dark Matter, IDM2000, York, England, September 18-22, 2000, to be publ. in proc. World Scoentific (2001). Home Page of Heidelberg Non-Accelerator Particle Physics Group (GENIUS Experiment): http://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/non_acc/genius.html