The MINERvA Experiment - A Status Report

MINER nu A (Main INjector ExpeRiment v-A) is a few-GeV neutrino-nucleus scattering experiment, stationed in the high intensity NuMI (Neutrinos at the Main Injector) beam line at Fermilab. It has been taking data since November 2009 and completed construction in March 2010. MINERvA aims to make precision measurements of low energy neutrino interactions, both in support of neutrino oscillation experiments and as a pure weak probe of the nuclear medium. For this, the experiment employs a fine-grained, high-resolution detector. The active target region is composed of plastic scintillator. There are additional nuclear targets of helium, carbon, iron, lead and water placed upstream of the fully active region. These targets will be used for measuring the A-dependence of nuclear effects in neutrino scattering. We present our preliminary results, from analyses probing the nuclear effects on charged current events in the iron, lead and plastic of the detector to results from analyses studying charged current quasi-elastic scattering on the active plastic target using both neutrinos and anti-neutrinos.