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This is an example of a charged current (CC) single-differential inclusive cross section analysis using the MINERvA Analysis Toolkit (MAT). It is intended for new MINERvA collaborators, as well as experienced MINERvA analyzers who would like to learn how to use the MAT.

The tutorial starts from the official MINERvA data preservation "anaTuple" .root files, produced by MasterAnaDev (MAD), and walks you through the steps needed to extract a neutrino interaction cross section.

For any MINERvA cross section measurement, it is necessary to subtract backgrounds arising from neutrino interactions other than those you are trying to measure. Most MINERvA analyses take their backgrounds from a simulation that has been modified using a fit to data sidebands. This basic tutorial does not attempt to constrain backgrounds with sidebands, but this functionality may be added at a later date.

The tutorial is based on Ben Messerly's examples of using the MINERvA Analysis Toolkit and work by Mehreen Sultana on her thesis analysis.

MINERvA is a neutrino scattering experiment that took data in Fermilab's NuMI beamline from 2009-2019.

To start the tutorial, you should walk through the links in the sidebar, starting with "Prerequisites".