Measurement of The Antineutrino Double Differential Charged Current Quasi Elastic Scattering Cross Section at Minerva

​This thesis represents the first double differential measurement of quasi-elastic anti-neutrino scattering in the few GeV range–a region of substantial theoretical and experimental interest as it is the kinematic region where studies of charge-parity (CP) violation in the neutrino sector most require precise understanding of the differences between anti-neutrino and neutrino scatter. This dissertation also presents total antineutrino-scintillator quasi-elastic cross sections as a function of energy, which is then compared to measurements from previous experiments.