Measurement of Muon Neutrino Quase-Elastic-Like Scattering on a Hydrocarbon Target at Ev ~ 6 GeV

The MINERνA Experiment (Main Injector Experiment ν-A interaction) is a highly segmented detector of neutrinos, able to record events with high precision using the NuMI Beam (Neutrino Main Injector) at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. In this thesis, we present the first measurement of the charged current quasi-elastic-like νµ interaction on polystyrene scintillator (CH) in the MINERνA detector at neutrino energies around 6 GeV. The dataset used was taken between 2013 and 2014 with a total of 1:17 X 1021 protons on target. The interactions were selected by requiring a negative muon, a reconstructed and identi_ed proton, no michel electrons in the _nal state (in order to get rid of soft pions decaying) and a low calorimetric recoil energy away from the interaction vertex. The _nal measurement reported is a differential cross section in terms of the muon quadratic transfered energy Q2.