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Dark Matter Search and Double Beta Decay
The experiment will allow to probe neutrino masses down to 10-(2-3) eV. GENIUS will test the structure of the neutrino mass matrix, and therefore implicitly neutrino oscillation parameters comparable or superior in sensitivity to the best proposed dedicated terrestrial neutrino oscillation experiments. If the 10-3 eV level is reached, GENIUS will even allow to test the large angle MSW solution of the solar neutrino problem. Even in its first stage GENIUS will confirm or rule out degenerate or inverted neutrino mass scenarios, which have been widely discussed in the literature as a possible solution to current hints on finite neutrino masses and also test the ve -> vµ hypothesis of the atmospheric neutrino problem.GENIUS would contribute to the search for R-parity violating SUSY and right-handed W-bosons on a scale similar or superior to LHC. In addition, GENIUS would largely improve the current neutrinoless double beta decay searches for R-parity conserving SUSY and leptoquarks.
Concerning cold dark matter (CDM) search, the low background anticipated for GENIUS would, for the first time ever, allow to cover a significant part of the MSSM neutralino parameter space, making GENIUS competitive to LHC in SUSY discovery. If GENIUS could find SUSY CDM it would confirm that R-parity must be conserved exactly. GENIUS will thus be a major tool for future non-accelerator particle physics.
For a detailed discussion of the experiment and its goals see our publications:
BOOKS:
| BOOKS: |
"60 Years of Double Beta Decay",
H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus,
"Particle Astrophysics",
H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, K. Zuber,Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol and Philadelphia, (2000) (2. edition), 507 pages
BOOKS (SPIRES-SLAC) page
"Teilchen-Astrophysik",
"Particle Astrophysics",
"Elementarnue chastizi v astrofisike",
H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus and K. Zuber
(German edition),
Teubner Studienbuch, Teubner Verlag, Stuttgart, (1997) 497 pages,
BOOKS (Amazon.de)
(English edition),
Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol and Philadelphia,
(1997) 507 pages
(GENIUS project - 71, 76, 299 pp)
BOOKS (IOP) page
(Russian edition),
Nauka, Fismatlit, Moscow, (2000) 533 pages
"Nuclear Beta Decay" - H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus,
in "Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics",
IOP, Bristol and Phyladelphia, Volume 12: Gem-N (2000) 1856 - 1862.
"Neutrino Physics" , Edited by Klaus Winter. ("Searching for Double Beta Decay", H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus - 113 - 127pp)
Cambridge Univ. Press (2000) (second ed.) (Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics, and Cosmology: 14) 576 p.
ARTICLES:
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Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay and Dark Matter Search
with GENIUS,H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, S. Kolb
Phys. Atom. Nucl. 63 (2000) 1249 - 1258 and Yad. Fiz. 63 (2000) 1322 - 1331
Superkamiokande und das Neutrinomassenspectrum,H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus und H. Päs,
Physik in unserer Zeit Nr.5 (2000) 229
The quest for the neutrino mass spectrum,H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus and H. Päs,
physics/0006024 and Comments in Nucl. and Particle Physics (2000)
Neutrino mass spectrum and neutrinoless double beta
decay,H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, H. Päs and A.Y. Smirnov,
hep-ph/0003219 and Phys. Rev., in press (2000)
Perspectives of Double
Beta and Dark Matter Search as Windows to New Physics,H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus,
in "Symmetries in Intermediate and High Energy Physics", eds.: Faessler, Kosmas ans Leontaris, Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, Vol. 163 (2000) 69 - 104 pp., Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Hot and Cold dark Matter search with GENIUS,the GENIUS Collaboration,
in Proc. of 4th International Symposium on Sources and Detection of Dark Matter in the Universe (DM 2000), Marina del Rey, California, 23-25 Feb 2000, ed D. Cline and astro-ph/0005568
GENIUS - a Supersensitive Germanium Detector System for
Rare Events,H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, L. Baudis, G. Heusser, B. Majorovits, H. Päs,
Proposal (second draft) , Preprint: hep-ph/9910205 and MPI-H-V26, (1999)
Status and Perspectives of Double Beta Decay and Dark
Matter Search -- Windows to New Physics,H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus
P. Herczeg, C.M. Hoffman and H.V. Klapdor--Kleingrothaus (Editors),
World Scientific, Singapore (1999) 275 -- 311 BOOKS (SPIRES-SLAC) page
GENIUS: The first real time detector for solar pp neutrinos?,
L. Baudis and H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus,
in the proceedings of 2nd International Conference Physics Beyond the
Standard Model: Beyond the Desert 99: Accelerator, Nonaccelerator and Space
Approaches, Ringberg Castle, Tegernsee, Germany, 6-12 Jun 1999, IOP, Bristol,
2000, eds H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus and I.V. Krivosheina, p. 1023 and
astro-ph/0003435
Double Beta Decay with Ge-detectors - and the Future
of Double Beta and Dark Matter Search (GENIUS),H. V. Klapdor--Kleingrothaus,
in Proc. of 18th International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics (NEUTRINO 98), Takayama, Japan, 4-9 Jun 1998, (eds) Y. Suzuki et al.
Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 77 (1999) 357 - 368
Background and Technical Studies for
GENIUS as a Dark Matter ExperimentL. Baudis, G. Heusser, B. Majorovits, Y. Ramachers, H. Strecker, H. V. Klapdor--Kleingrothaus,
NIM A 426 (1999) 425 - 435
Double Beta Decay - Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Now, and in Future (GENIUS),H. V. Klapdor--Kleingrothaus,
Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 40 (1998) 265 - 282
Status and Perspectives of Double Beta Decay - Window
to New Physics Beyond the Standard Model of Particle
Physics,H. V. Klapdor--Kleingrothaus,
Intern. J. of Modern Physics A 13, No. 23 (1998) 3953 - 3992
Ice Shielding in the Large Scale GENIUS Experiment
for Double Beta Decay and Dark Matter Search,H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, Yu.G. Zdesenko,
Eur. Phys. J. A3 (1998) 107 - 108
The GENIUS Project: Background and Technical Studies,
B. Majorovits, L. Baudis, G. Heusser, Y. Ramachers, H. Strecker, H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus,
in Proc. of 2nd International Workshop on the Identification of Dark Matter (IDM 98), Buxton, England, 7-11 Sep. (1998) and hep-ex/9811022
GENIUS: A New Dark Matter ProjectL. Baudis, J. Hellmig, M. Hirsch, G. Heusser, H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, B. Majorovits, Y. Ramachers, H. Strecker in Proc. of 3rd International Symposium on Sources and Detection of Dark Matter in the Universe (DM 98), Santa Monica, CA, 18-20 Feb 1998
Phys. Rept. 307:(1998) 301 - 308
The GENIUS Experiment: Background and Technical
StudiesL. Baudis, G. Heusser, B. Majorovits, Y. Ramachers, H. Strecker, H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus,
in Proc. of 2nd International Conference on Dark Matter in Astro and Particle Physics (DARK98), Heidelberg, Germany, 20-25 July, 1998, H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus and L. Baudis (editors) IOP Publishing, Bristol and Philadelphia, (1999) 719-737
Double Beta and Dark Matter Search - Window to New
Physics beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics,H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus
in Proc. of "Lepton and Baryon Number Violation in Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology", Proceedings of International Conference on "Lepton-Baryon'98", H.V. Klapdor--Kleingrothaus, I. Krivosheina (Editors), IOP Publishing, Bristol and Philadelphia, (1999)
Double-Beta Decay: Physics Beyond the Standard model
Now and in the Future (GENIUS)H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus
in Proc. of COSMO 97: International Workshop on Particle Physics and the Early Universe, Ambleside, England, 15 - 19 September (1997) and Published in Phys. Atom. Nucl. 61: (1998) 875 - 885 or Yad. Fiz. 61 : (1998) 967 - 977 (Proc. of NANP'97, (eds) V.A. Bednyakov, V.B. Brudanin and S.G. Kovalenko)
Future Perspectives of Double Beta Decay and Dark
Matter Search - GENIUS,H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus
J. Phys. G 24: 483 - 516 (1998)
A large scale double beta and dark matter
experiment: GENIUS,J. Hellmig, H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus,
Z.Phys. A 359 (1997) 361-372 [811kb]
A large scale double beta and dark matter
experiment: On the physics potential of GENIUS, H.V.Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, M.Hirsch,
Z. Phys. A 359 (1997) 361-372 [536kb],
GENIUS - a New Experiment with Large Discovery
Potential for Particle and Astrophysics,
H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, J. Hellmig, M. Hirsch,
Proposal (first draft), November 20, 1997
Double Beta Decay - Physics Beyond the Standard
Model now, and in future (GENIUS), H.V.Klapdor-Kleingrothaus,
in Proc. of "Beyond the Desert 1997" -- "Accelerator and --> -- Non--accelerator Approaches",
First International Conference on Particle Physics Beyond the Standard Model, 8-14 June, 1997, (Proc.),
H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, H. Paes (Editors)
Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol and Philadelphia, (1998)