Background and Technical Studies for GENIUS as a Dark Matter Experiment
  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. 
L. Baudis, G. Heusser, B. Majorovits, Y. Ramachers, H. Strecker, and   H. V. Klapdor--Kleingrothaus (Max--Planck--Institut f...