Towards a quasiestic-like muon neutrino charged-current exc. cross section measurement at the NOvA Near Detector

The NOvA near detector has been used to perform several neutrino-matter cross section measurements as a function of final state muon or electron kinematics around E𝜈 = 2 GeV. In this talk, I show how the muon neutrino charged-current measurement in particular can be extended into a more exclusive region of phase space in order to probe nuclear effects. This can be done by selecting an exclusive final state with one muon and one proton, and measuring the cross section in terms of transverse kinematic imbalance (TKI) variables. The measurement I describe here would also be sensitive to quasi-elastic (QEL), two-particle two-hole (2p2h), and resonant (RES) neutrino interactions. This talk will present optimized selection cuts for the development of a proton momentum estimator, which is necessary for reconstructing the TKI variables. Both of these efforts are novel within the context of the NOvA near detector.