eprintid: 1411
rev_number: 8
eprint_status: archive
userid: 1
dir: disk0/00/00/14/11
datestamp: 2001-01-16 00:00:00
lastmod: 2014-04-03 10:36:06
status_changed: 2012-08-14 15:00:54
type: doctoralThesis
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Majorovits, Bela Alexander
title: High Purity Germanium detectors for the search of rare events : background discrimination and future prospects with the GENIUS project
title_de: High-Purity-Germanium-Detektoren für die Suche nach seltenen Ereignissen : Untergrundreduktion und Zukunftsaussichten mit dem GENIUS-Projekt
ispublished: pub
subjects: 530
divisions: 851340
adv_faculty: af-13
keywords: Neutrinoloser Doppelbetazerfall, Dunkle MaterieHPGe-Detector, Dark Matter, WIMP, Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
cterms_swd: Low-level-Detektor
cterms_swd: Neutrino
cterms_swd: Kosmologie
cterms_swd: Germaniumdetektor
abstract_translated_text: This thesis concentrates on the search for WIMP dark matter and neutrinoless double beta decay using High Purity Germanium detectors. In modern physics two of the main goals are to find out about the nature of dark matter and to answer the question on the neutrino mass.  The HdMoi presently provides the best limits for neutrinoless double beta  decay which provides important information on the nature of neutrinos. A new data analysis method based on neural networks has been developed in the course of this work.  A new lower limit  on the half life of neutrinoless double beta decay could be derived. The HDMS experiment is designed to look for WIMP dark matter. It has been installed in its final setup and the first spectrum obtained is  discussed here. Several proposals for test setups for the GENIUS experiment are introduced and their projected sensitivities on WIMP dark matter search are discussed.  The BARGEIN project is proposed and it is discussed that this  experiment could with minimal effort test the DAMA evidence using the signal by means of the WIMP-nuclear recoil spectrum. It is finally proposed to use the BARGEIN proposal in an enlarged setup, the Genius TF, to prove the feasibility of the GENIUS experiment and to fully test the DAMA evidence by means of signal and signature, the annual modulation effect. The preparations for the installation of the Genius TF did already begin.} 
abstract_translated_lang: eng
date: 2000
date_type: published
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00001411
ppn_swb: 1643183591
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-14118
date_accepted: 2000-12-20
advisor: HASH(0x5561209e6dd0)
language: eng
bibsort: MAJOROVITSHIGHPURITY2000
full_text_status: public
citation:   Majorovits, Bela Alexander  (2000) High Purity Germanium detectors for the search of rare events : background discrimination and future prospects with the GENIUS project.  [Dissertation]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/1411/1/diss_main.pdf