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Major Neutrino Experiments

Neutrino experiments can be classified by neutrino source, energy range, detector technology, and scientific objective. The catalogue below includes operating, completed, under-construction, and proposed experiments. Experimental status is current to approximately June 2026 and may change.

1. Accelerator Long-Baseline Oscillation Experiments

These experiments send an accelerator-produced neutrino beam over hundreds or thousands of kilometres.

1. DUNE/LBNF — Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, United States

2. T2K — Tokai to Kamioka, Japan

3. Hyper-Kamiokande / T2HK — Tokai to Hyper-Kamiokande, Japan

4. NOvA — NuMI Off-axis νe Appearance experiment, United States

5. MINOS — Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search

6. MINOS+ — Extended MINOS high-energy program

7. K2K — KEK to Kamioka experiment, Japan

8. OPERA — Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus

9. ICARUS-CNGS — Liquid-argon detector exposed to the CERN–Gran Sasso beam

10. CNGS — CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso program

11. NuMI — Neutrinos at the Main Injector beam program

12. ESSnuSB — European Spallation Source Neutrino Super Beam

13. MOMENT — Muon-decay medium-baseline neutrino beam proposal

14. P2O — Protvino-to-ORCA neutrino-beam proposal

15. LBNO — Long-Baseline Neutrino Observatory proposal

16. LBNE — Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment, predecessor of DUNE

DUNE is being developed as the next major US long-baseline program, while T2K and Hyper-Kamiokande form the corresponding major Japanese program. Fermilab currently lists NOvA and ICARUS as operating and DUNE as being designed and built. (Neutrino Physics at Fermilab)

2. Short-Baseline and Sterile-Neutrino Experiments

1. SBND — Short-Baseline Near Detector

2. MicroBooNE

3. ICARUS at Fermilab

4. MiniBooNE — Mini Booster Neutrino Experiment

5. BooNE — Booster Neutrino Experiment program

6. LSND — Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector

7. KARMEN — Karlsruhe–Rutherford Medium Energy Neutrino experiment

8. JSNS² — J-PARC Sterile Neutrino Search at the J-PARC Spallation Neutron Source

9. IsoDAR — Isotope Decay-At-Rest neutrino source

10. OscSNS — Oscillation experiment at a Spallation Neutron Source

11. BEST — Baksan Experiment on Sterile Transitions

12. SOX / CeSOX — Short-distance Oscillations with BoreXino source concept

13. nuSTORM — Neutrinos from Stored Muons

14. KPipe — Monoenergetic kaon-decay-at-rest neutrino experiment concept

15. DaRveX — Decay-at-Rest νe–lead cross-section experiment

Fermilab’s Short-Baseline Neutrino Program combines SBND, MicroBooNE and ICARUS, all based on liquid-argon time-projection-chamber technology. (SBN)

3. Accelerator Neutrino-Interaction Experiments

These measure neutrino cross-sections and nuclear effects needed by oscillation experiments.

1. MINERvA — Main Injector Neutrino ExpeRiment to study ν–A interactions

2. ANNIE — Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment

3. ArgoNeuT — Argon Neutrino Teststand

4. LArIAT — Liquid Argon in a Testbeam

5. ProtoDUNE-SP — Single-phase DUNE prototype

6. ProtoDUNE-HD — Horizontal-drift DUNE prototype

7. ProtoDUNE-VD — Vertical-drift DUNE prototype

8. CAPTAIN — Cryogenic Apparatus for Precision Tests of Argon Interactions with Neutrinos

9. NINJA — Neutrino Interaction research with Nuclear emulsion and J-PARC Accelerator

10. WAGASCI — Water Grid and Scintillator Detector

11. T2K ND280 — T2K near-detector complex

12. SuperFGD — Super Fine-Grained Detector

13. INGRID — Interactive Neutrino GRID

14. SciBooNE — SciBar Booster Neutrino Experiment

15. K2K SciBar

16. NOMAD — Neutrino Oscillation MAgnetic Detector

17. NuTeV — Neutrinos at the Tevatron

18. CCFR — Columbia–Chicago–Fermilab–Rochester experiment

19. CDHS/CDHSW — CERN–Dortmund–Heidelberg–Saclay experiment

20. CHARM and CHARM-II

21. BEBC neutrino experiments — Big European Bubble Chamber

22. Gargamelle

23. ANL 12-foot bubble chamber

24. BNL 7-foot bubble chamber

25. ENUBET — Enhanced NeUtrino BEams from kaon Tagging

26. NP06/ENUBET at CERN

27. SHiP neutrino program — Search for Hidden Particles

28. DUNE Near Detector complex

29. SAND — System for on-Axis Neutrino Detection

30. ND-LAr — DUNE liquid-argon near detector

31. ND-GAr — Proposed gaseous-argon near detector

MINERvA measured neutrino interactions on several nuclear targets, while CERN’s Neutrino Platform supports detector development including ICARUS and ProtoDUNE. (minerva.fnal.gov)

4. Reactor-Neutrino Oscillation Experiments

1. JUNO — Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory

2. JUNO-TAO — Taishan Antineutrino Observatory

3. KamLAND — Kamioka Liquid Scintillator Antineutrino Detector

4. Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment

5. RENO — Reactor Experiment for Neutrino Oscillation

6. Double Chooz

7. CHOOZ

8. Palo Verde

9. Bugey-3

10. Bugey-4

11. Gösgen

12. ILL reactor-neutrino experiment

13. Krasnoyarsk experiments

14. Rovno experiments

15. Savannah River experiment — Reines–Cowan neutrino experiment

16. RENO-50 — Proposed medium-baseline detector

17. Hanohano — Proposed movable oceanic antineutrino observatory

JUNO began operating in 2025 and released its first oscillation results in June 2026; its major long-term objective is determining the neutrino mass ordering. (Reuters)

5. Very-Short-Baseline Reactor Experiments

These are especially important for reactor-spectrum measurements and sterile-neutrino searches.

1. PROSPECT — Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment

2. STEREO — Search for Sterile Reactor Neutrino Oscillations

3. SoLid — Search for Oscillations with a Lithium-6 Detector

4. DANSS — Detector of Anti-Neutrino based on Solid Scintillator

5. NEOS — Neutrino Experiment for Oscillation at Short Baseline

6. Neutrino-4

7. NUCIFER

8. NuLat — Neutrino Lattice detector

9. SANTA — Segmented AntiNeutrino Tomography Apparatus

10. CHANDLER — Carbon Hydrogen AntiNeutrino Detector with a Lithium Enhanced Raghavan optical lattice

11. ROADSTR — Reactor Operations Antineutrino Detection Surface Testbed

12. VIDARR — Very-small-scale detector concept for reactor monitoring

13. iDREAM — Industrial Detector for Reactor Antineutrino Monitoring

14. ANGRA — Brazilian reactor-antineutrino experiment

15. WATCHMAN — Water Cherenkov Monitor for Antineutrinos

16. AIT-NEO — Advanced Instrumentation Testbed–Neutrino Experiment One

6. Solar-Neutrino Experiments

1. Homestake Chlorine Experiment

2. Kamiokande

3. Super-Kamiokande

4. SNO — Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

5. SNO+

6. Borexino

7. GALLEX — Gallium Experiment

8. GNO — Gallium Neutrino Observatory

9. SAGE — Soviet–American Gallium Experiment

10. LENS — Low Energy Neutrino Spectroscopy proposal

11. HELLAZ — Helium solar-neutrino detector proposal

12. HERON — Helium Roton Observation of Neutrinos proposal

13. CLEAN — Cryogenic Low-Energy Astrophysics with Noble liquids

14. XMASS solar-neutrino studies

15. JUNO solar-neutrino program

16. Hyper-Kamiokande solar-neutrino program

17. THEIA — Proposed water-based liquid-scintillator observatory

Super-Kamiokande remains a major multipurpose observatory studying solar, atmospheric and astrophysical neutrinos, as well as proton decay.

7. Atmospheric-Neutrino Experiments

1. Super-Kamiokande

2. Kamiokande

3. IMB — Irvine–Michigan–Brookhaven detector

4. Soudan-2

5. MACRO — Monopole, Astrophysics and Cosmic Ray Observatory

6. IceCube

7. DeepCore

8. ANTARES

9. KM3NeT-ORCA

10. Baikal-GVD

11. INO-ICAL — India-based Neutrino Observatory, Iron Calorimeter

12. MINOS atmospheric-neutrino program

13. NOvA atmospheric-neutrino program

14. DUNE atmospheric-neutrino program

15. Hyper-Kamiokande atmospheric-neutrino program

16. PINGU — Precision IceCube Next Generation Upgrade proposal

17. IceCube Upgrade

KM3NeT contains two distinct arrays: ORCA is optimized for lower-energy atmospheric neutrinos and mass-ordering studies, while ARCA targets high-energy cosmic neutrinos.

8. High-Energy Neutrino Telescopes

Ice and water Cherenkov detectors

1. IceCube Neutrino Observatory

2. AMANDA — Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array

3. IceCube-Gen2

4. DeepCore

5. KM3NeT-ARCA

6. KM3NeT-ORCA

7. ANTARES

8. Baikal NT-200

9. Baikal-GVD — Gigaton Volume Detector

10. NESTOR — Neutrino Extended Submarine Telescope with Oceanographic Research

11. NEMO — NEutrino Mediterranean Observatory

12. P-ONE — Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment

13. TRIDENT — Tropical Deep-sea Neutrino Telescope

14. HUNT — High-energy Underwater Neutrino Telescope concept

15. NEON — Neutrino Observatory in the Nanhai

IceCube remains a major operating cosmic-neutrino observatory; its upgrade was deployed during the 2025–2026 Antarctic season. (IceCube)

9. Radio-Detection Experiments for Ultra-High-Energy Neutrinos

1. ANITA — Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna

2. PUEO — Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations

3. ARA — Askaryan Radio Array

4. ARIANNA — Antarctic Ross Ice-Shelf Antenna Neutrino Array

5. RNO-G — Radio Neutrino Observatory–Greenland

6. FORTE — Fast On-orbit Recording of Transient Events

7. GLUE — Goldstone Lunar Ultra-high-energy neutrino Experiment

8. NuMoon

9. LUNASKA — Lunar UHE Neutrino Astrophysics with the Square Kilometre Array

10. RESUN — Radio EVLA Search for UHE Neutrinos

11. SKA lunar-neutrino program

12. BEACON — Beamforming Elevated Array for COsmic Neutrinos

13. GRAND — Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection

14. RET-N — Radar Echo Telescope for Neutrinos

15. TAROGE — Taiwan Astroparticle Radiowave Observatory for Geo-synchrotron Emissions

16. TAROGE-M

17. IceCube-Gen2 Radio Array

RNO-G is being constructed in Greenland to search for radio emission from the highest-energy neutrino-induced particle cascades. (Inspire)

10. Earth-Skimming Tau-Neutrino Experiments

1. TAMBO — Tau Air-Shower Mountain-Based Observatory

2. Trinity — Imaging-air-Cherenkov tau-neutrino observatory

3. BEACON

4. GRAND

5. POEMMA — Probe of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics

6. CHANT — Cosmic-ray tau-neutrino telescope concept

7. Ashra NTA — All-sky Survey High Resolution Air-shower detector, Neutrino Telescope Array

8. TAROGE-M

9. ANITA tau-neutrino searches

10. PUEO tau-neutrino program

11. Auger Earth-skimming neutrino searches

12. TAIGA neutrino-search studies

13. MAGIC tau-neutrino searches

14. CTA tau-neutrino searches

15. LHAASO neutrino-search studies

11. Collider-Neutrino Experiments

1. FASERν — FASER neutrino detector at the LHC

2. FASERν2 — Proposed enlarged Forward Physics Facility detector

3. SND@LHC — Scattering and Neutrino Detector at the LHC

4. AdvSND — Proposed advanced SND detector

5. FLArE — Forward Liquid Argon Experiment

6. FORMOSA — Forward Search Experiment for millicharged particles, with related forward-physics applications

7. DONUT — Direct Observation of the Nu Tau

8. DsTau / NA65 — Tau-neutrino production experiment

9. SHiP tau-neutrino detector

10. FPF neutrino program — Forward Physics Facility

SND@LHC and FASERν study neutrinos produced in LHC collisions. SND@LHC began taking data during LHC Run 3 in 2022. (CERN)

12. Tau-Neutrino Experiments

1. DONUT — First direct observation of tau-neutrino interactions

2. OPERA — Direct observation of νμ→ντ appearance

3. DsTau / NA65

4. FASERν

5. SND@LHC

6. SHiP

7. IceCube tau-neutrino studies

8. Super-Kamiokande tau-appearance studies

9. DUNE tau-neutrino program

10. TAMBO

11. Trinity

12. GRAND

13. POEMMA

13. Supernova-Neutrino Experiments

1. Super-Kamiokande / SK-Gd

2. Hyper-Kamiokande

3. DUNE

4. JUNO

5. IceCube

6. KamLAND

7. SNO+

8. Borexino

9. LVD — Large Volume Detector

10. Baksan Underground Scintillation Telescope

11. HALO — Helium and Lead Observatory

12. NOvA

13. MicroBooNE

14. SBND

15. ICARUS

16. KM3NeT

17. Baikal-GVD

18. DarkSide-20k supernova-neutrino program

19. DARWIN supernova-neutrino program

20. DUNE near and far detector burst searches

21. SNEWS / SNEWS 2.0 — SuperNova Early Warning System network

14. Geoneutrino Experiments

1. KamLAND geoneutrino program

2. Borexino geoneutrino program

3. SNO+ geoneutrino program

4. JUNO geoneutrino program

5. Hanohano

6. Ocean Bottom Detector concepts

7. THEIA geoneutrino program

8. Jinping Neutrino Experiment concept

15. Direct Neutrino-Mass Experiments

These determine or constrain neutrino mass from weak-decay kinematics without relying on cosmology.

1. KATRIN — Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino experiment

2. Mainz Tritium Neutrino Experiment

3. Troitsk ν-mass experiment

4. Project 8

5. HOLMES — Holmium Electron Capture Measurement

6. ECHo — Electron Capture in Holmium

7. NuMECS — Neutrino Mass via Electron Capture Spectroscopy

8. MARE — Microcalorimeter Arrays for a Rhenium Experiment

9. MANU — Rhenium beta-decay calorimetric experiment

10. PTOLEMY — Princeton Tritium Observatory for Light, Early-Universe, Massive-Neutrino Yield

11. TRISTAN — KATRIN sterile-neutrino detector upgrade

12. KATRIN++ concepts

16. Neutrinoless Double-Beta-Decay Experiments

These test whether the neutrino is a Majorana particle and whether lepton number is violated.

Germanium-76 experiments

1. LEGEND-200

2. LEGEND-1000

3. GERDA

4. MAJORANA Demonstrator

5. Heidelberg–Moscow Experiment

6. IGEX

Xenon-136 experiments

7. KamLAND-Zen

8. EXO-200

9. nEXO

10. NEXT-White

11. NEXT-100

12. NEXT-HD

13. PandaX-III

14. DARWIN double-beta-decay program

15. LZ double-beta-decay searches

16. XENONnT double-beta-decay searches

Tellurium-130 experiments

17. CUORE

18. CUORE-0

19. Cuoricino

20. CUPID

21. SNO+ tellurium program

Other isotopes and technologies

22. NEMO-3

23. SuperNEMO

24. AMoRE

25. CANDLES

26. CUPID-Mo

27. CUPID-0

28. COBRA

29. MOON

30. DCBA

31. ZICOS

32. CaLIPSO

33. Aurora

34. BINGO

35. Selena

36. NuDoubt++

The LEGEND program uses enriched germanium detectors and proceeds from LEGEND-200 toward the proposed tonne-scale LEGEND-1000 experiment. (Legend)

17. Coherent Elastic Neutrino–Nucleus Scattering Experiments

1. COHERENT

2. CONUS / CONUS+

3. CONNIE

4. CONNIE-100

5. NUCLEUS

6. Ricochet

7. MINER — Mitchell Institute Neutrino Experiment at Reactor

8. RED-100

9. νGeN

10. Dresden-II

11. TEXONO

12. NCC-1701

13. CoNuGeN

14. NEON reactor CEνNS experiment

15. vIOLETA

16. CENNS-10

17. CENNS-750

18. ESS CEνNS experiments

19. SBC — Scintillating Bubble Chamber

20. CLOUD reactor-neutrino detector concepts

18. Neutrino Magnetic-Moment and Electromagnetic-Property Experiments

1. GEMMA — Germanium Experiment for Measurement of the Magnetic Moment of the Neutrino

2. TEXONO

3. MUNU

4. Borexino magnetic-moment searches

5. Super-Kamiokande electromagnetic-property searches

6. XENON1T neutrino magnetic-moment studies

7. LZ neutrino electromagnetic searches

8. CONUS+

9. Dresden-II

10. JUNO low-energy neutrino program

19. Neutrino Detector-Technology and Calibration Experiments

1. ProtoDUNE

2. LArIAT

3. ArgoNeuT

4. CAPTAIN

5. WA105 — Dual-phase liquid-argon demonstrator

6. ArgonCube

7. DUNE 2×2 Demonstrator

8. Baby MIND — Magnetized Iron Neutrino Detector

9. WCTE — Water Cherenkov Test Experiment

10. ANNIE

11. WATCHBOY

12. EGADS — Evaluating Gadolinium’s Action on Detector Systems

13. CHIPS — CHerenkov detectors In mine PitS

14. NuPRISM

15. TITUS

16. Theia demonstrators

17. Eos — Hybrid Cherenkov–scintillation demonstrator

18. BUTTON — Boulby Underground Technology Testbed Observatory for Neutrinos

19. NuDot

20. LiquidO detector program

Main Scientific Questions Addressed

Collectively, these experiments investigate:

• Neutrino flavour oscillations

• PMNS mixing parameters

• Leptonic CP violation

• Neutrino mass ordering

• Absolute neutrino mass

• Dirac versus Majorana nature

• Sterile neutrinos

• Neutrino–nucleus interactions

• Coherent elastic scattering

• Solar fusion processes

• Supernova dynamics

• Earth’s radioactive heat production

• Cosmic-ray accelerators

• Ultra-high-energy neutrinos

• Neutrino magnetic moments

• Non-standard neutrino interactions

• Lorentz and CPT violation

• Dark-sector particles

• Proton decay and grand unification

This classification provides a practical structure for a Neutrino Experiments section on a learning-and-research website: accelerator, reactor, solar, atmospheric, astrophysical, mass, Majorana, interaction and detector-development programs.