Studying Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions at SBND with Muon Neutrino Charged-Current Events with Protons and no Pions in the Final State

The Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND), a liquid argon time projection chamber (LArTPC) located at Fermilab will soon start accumulating data at a rate of over a million neutrino scattering events per year, initiating a wide range of neutrino physics programs. For SBND and many other neutrino experiments, modeling neutrino-nucleus interactions provides a significant challenge. Improved description of different interaction processes and nuclear effects will broadly impact cross section measurements, oscillation studies and exotic searches. This talk presents a study using Monte Carlo simulated data on neutrino scattering events with a muon, at least one proton, and no pions in the final state. We show how the proximity to the beam and the excellent imaging capabilities of SBND will provide high-statistics, high-purity data on this channel, and discuss how this data could lead to a better understanding of neutrino-nucleus interactions.