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Major Current / Planned Fermilab Experiments

DUNE — Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment; flagship long-baseline neutrino experiment hosted by Fermilab.
LBNF — Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility; beam/facility infrastructure for DUNE.
PIP-II — Proton Improvement Plan-II; new accelerator upgrade to support high-intensity neutrino beams for DUNE.
NOvA — NuMI Off-axis νe Appearance experiment; long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment.
ICARUS — Liquid-argon neutrino detector in Fermilab’s Short-Baseline Neutrino program; active sterile-neutrino search.
SBND — Short-Baseline Near Detector; near detector for Fermilab’s Short-Baseline Neutrino program.
ANNIE — Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment.
Mu2e — Searches for charged-lepton flavor violation: muon-to-electron conversion.
Muon g-2 — Precision measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic moment; final Fermilab result announced in 2025.
REDTOP — Proposed rare eta/eta-prime decay experiment to search for new physics and light dark matter.

MiniBooNE — Mini Booster Neutrino Experiment.
MicroBooNE — Liquid-argon TPC experiment investigating low-energy neutrino anomalies.
MINOS / MINOS+ — Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search.
MINERνA — Precision neutrino–nucleus interaction experiment.
ArgoNeuT — Argon Neutrino Test experiment.
SciBooNE — Booster neutrino scattering experiment.
DONuT — Direct Observation of the Nu Tau; first direct observation of tau neutrinos.

CDF — Collider Detector at Fermilab; Tevatron experiment, co-discovered the top quark.
DØ / DZero — Tevatron collider experiment, also co-discovered the top quark.
E706 — Direct photon and neutral meson production.
E760 / E835 — Charmonium spectroscopy using antiprotons.
E791 — Charm hadroproduction experiment.
HyperCP / E871 — Hyperon CP violation experiment.

The Tevatron was Fermilab’s proton–antiproton collider and operated until September 29, 2011.

KTeV — Kaons at the Tevatron; CP violation in neutral kaons.
SeaQuest / E906 — Drell–Yan experiment studying quark/antiquark structure of nucleons.
MIPP — Main Injector Particle Production experiment.
Holometer — Precision interferometer experiment testing Planck-scale space-time correlations.
DarkSide-related R&D / LAr detector R&D — Liquid-argon technology development.
LArIAT — Liquid Argon In A Testbeam; detector calibration and reconstruction studies.
DarkQuest — Dark-sector search using the SeaQuest spectrometer.