Laufzeit: 28.01.2011 - 31.12.2015
Partner: Internationale Kollaboration mit 14 Institutionen aus USA, Deutschland, Schweiz, Italien, Portugal, Frankreich, Niederlande, Israel und China. In Deutschland arbeiten Gruppen an der JGU Mainz (Gruppe U. Oberlack), am MPI für Kernphysik, Heidelberg (Gruppe M. Lindner), und an der Universität Münster (Gruppe Ch. Weinheimer).
85% of all matter in the universe is of an as yet unknown type, called Dark Matter. The XENON project aims at detecting particle dark matter through their rare interaction with atomic nuclei, using highly sensitive, low background detectors. The current (2011) project XENON100 is at the forefront of sensitivities today, aiming at an improvement of a factor 10-20 over current limits. Based on the successful operation of XENON100, we already plan for the future with the XENON1T experiment.
