Measurement of Muon Neutrino Quasi-Elastic Scattering on a Hydrocarbon Target at E_{\nu} ~ 3.5 GeV

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We report a study of muon neutrino charged-current quasi-elastic events in the segmented scintillator inner tracker of the MINERvA experiment running in the NuMI neutrino beam at Fermilab.

• The events were selected by requiring a {\mu}^- and low calorimetric recoil energy separated from the interaction vertex.
• We measure the flux-averaged differential cross-section, d{\sigma}/dQ^2, and study the low energy particle content of the final state.
• Deviations are found between the measured d{\sigma}/dQ^2 and the expectations of a model of independent nucleons in a relativistic Fermi gas.