Charged-Current Interaction Measurements in MiniBooNE

Low energy (200$<$Enu$<$2000 MeV) neutrino oscillation experiments, including MiniBooNE, require a model of charged current quasi-elastic (CCQE) neutrino interactions to predict signal samples. Using a high-statistics sample of muon neutrino CCQE events, MiniBooNE finds that a simple Fermi gas model, with appropriate adjustments, accurately characterizes the CCQE events observed in a carbon-based detector. The extracted parameters include an effective axial mass, M$_A$ = 1.23 +/- 0.20 GeV, used to describe the four-momentum dependence of the axial-vector form factor of the nucleon and a Pauli-suppression parameter, kappa = 1.019 +/- 0.011.