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This analysis measures the charged-current quasi-elastic cross-section for anti-neutrinos incident on the plastic scintillator (CH) tracker region of the MINERvA detector. In the free-nucleon case, this interaction would be represented by: The interaction is explained in detail in Sect. 2.2. A true charged-current quasi-elastic (CCQE) antineutrino scattering interaction should produce a characteristic signature: an outgoing positive muon plus a recoil neutron. Thus, in general, our reconstruction should attempt to identify final states with this configuration, while rejecting events from other processes.
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Patrick, C.E. (2018). Charged-Current Quasi-Elastic Event Selection. In: Measurement of the Antineutrino Double-Differential Charged-Current Quasi-Elastic Scattering Cross Section at MINERvA. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69087-2_4
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