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realisation of a future astroparticle observatory in Europe as identified in the APPEC Roadmap target of liquid xenon for the direct detection of particle dark matter in a sensitive time projection chamber. The DARWIN project, its DARWIN aims at pushing the sensitivity to new levels in order to eventually cover the entire WIMP-parameter space before neutrino backgrounds dominate. Such a detector would not only have a realistic chance of discovering the nature of dark matter, but would also be able to study its properties such as mas*, interaction strength and its local distribution in our galaxy. DARWIN will search for WIMP dark spin-dependent, inelastic). Its low background will also make it ideally suited for a large number of other rare event searches. Prime examples are: solar neutrinos, especially the low-energy pp-neutrinos; neutrinoless double beta-decay of 136Xe without isotopic enrichment; axions and axion-like particles, neutrinos from supernovae and various rare nuclear processes. DARWIN will be the low-background, low-threshold astroparticle physics observatory. DARWIN brings together several groups, mainly from Europe and the USA, uniting expertise on liquid xenon detectors, low-background techniques, cryogenic infrastructure, shielding, data an*lysis and simulation and astroparticle physics phenomenology. Dual-phase liquid xenon detectors have successfully demonstrated to be highly competitive to the other main technologies in this area. They offer low-threshold, ultra-low background and position-sensitive detectors which can be scaled to the multi-ton target mas*es which are required to detect weakly interacting mas*ive particles. On these pages, you can find more