| The Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (MINOS) is a two detector, long baseline neutrino oscillation experiment. The MINOS near detector is an iron-scintillator tracking/sampling calorimeter and has recorded the world's largest data set of neutrino interactions in the 0--5 GeV region. This high statistics data set is used to make precision measurements of neutrino interaction cross-sections on iron.;The Q² dependence in charged current quasi-elastic (CCQE) scattering probes the axial and vector structure (form factor) of the nucleon/nuclear target, and nuclear effects in neutrino scattering. Presented here is a study of the MINOS Data that will introduce a method that improves the existing MINOS CCQE analysis. This analysis uses an additional CCQE dominated sub-sample from a different kinematic region to reduce correlations between fit parameters in the existing MINOS CCQE analysis. The measured value of the axial-vector mass is MQEA=1.312+0.037-0.038 (fit) +0.123-0.265 (syst.) GeV. |
