Reaction Mechanisms at MINER$\nu$A

Understand

The MINER$\nu$A experiment investigates neutrino interactions with nucleons needed for an understanding of electroweak interactions of hadrons.

• Since nuclear targets are being used many-body effects may affect the extracted cross sections and the energy reconstruction.
• The latter is essential for the extraction of neutrino oscillation properties.
• We investigate the influence of nuclear effects on neutrino interaction cross sections and make predictions for charged current quasielastic (QE) scattering, nucleon-knock-out and pion- and kaon-production on a CH target.