Measurement of the muon antineutrino charged-current inclusive cross section using the NOvA near detector

Neutrino cross section measurements serve two major purposes; they can provide a deeper understanding of particle interactions, and they help to lower one of the leading systematic uncertainties on neutrino oscillation measurements. In this talk, I will present current and future work towards a muon antineutrino inclusive cross section measurement using data taken from the NOvA's near detector. There are various stages in performing this analysis which include - among other work - the training of a muon track classifier, cut optimization, energy estimation, and purity and efficiency studies using Monte Carlo simulation. I will discuss the work which has already gone into this analysis, and future work that remains to be done. In addition, I will discuss various challenges unique to the antineutrino measurement which have been foreseen and how we plan to address them.