Located at Fermilab, the experiment will build and operate a large, approximately 100-ton, liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) located along the Booster neutrino beam line. The experiment will measure low energy neutrino cross sections, and investigate the low energy excess events observed by the MiniBooNE experiment. The detector serves as the necessary next step in a phased program towards the construction of massive, kilo-ton range, LArTPC detectors.

The experiment spokesperson is Bonnie Flemming, Yale U., and the deputy spokespeson is Bill Willis, BNL and Columbia U. The experiment was proposed to the Fermilab PAC in October 2007, and received Stage-1 approval from the Lab in July 2008.

The project carries out the design and construction of the MicroBooNE detector following the process described under DOE order 413.3A. The project manager is C. James, Fermilab. Critical Decision 0 (CD-0), marking the formal start of the project, was granted in September 2009.

Funding for the experiment and project is provided through the DOE Office of Science and the National Science Foundation.