Measurement of Muon Neutrino Quasielastic Scattering on a Hydrocarbon Target at $E_{\nu}$ $\sim$3.5 GeV
In this thesis, we present the measurement of the charged-current quasi-elastic interaction on polystyrene scintillator (CH) in the MINERA detector at neutrino energy between 1.5 GeV and 10.0 GeV ( 3:5 GeV). The data used was taken between March and July 2010, with a total of 9.421019 protons-on-target. Interactions were selected by requiring a negative muon and low calorimetric recoil energy separated from the interaction vertex. The analysis was performed on 29,620 charged current quasi-elastic interaction candidates in MINERA's ne-grained scintillator tracker region. The measurement is reported as a ux-averaged single dierential cross section in Q2 and compared with the prediction of dierent theoretical models in Monte Carlo simulations. Dierence in shape between the measured d=dQ2 QE and the expectation from a model based on independent nucleons in a relativistic fermi gas is found.