The primary goal of this experiment is:

To test for neutrino mass by searching for neutrino oscillations. Neutrino mass is important because it may lead us to physics beyond the Standard Model. Masses in the range accessible to MiniBooNE will expand our understanding of how the universe has evolved.

The BooNE project began in 1997. The first beam induced neutrino events were detected in September, 2002, and the first anti-neutrino events were detected in January of 2006.