MINERνA: A High-Statistics Neutrino Scattering Experiment using a Fine-Grained Detector in the NuMI Beam

The NuMI Facility at Fermilab will provide an extremely intense beam of neutrinos making it an ideal place for high statistics (anti)neutrino-nucleon/nucleus scattering experiments. The MINERνA experiment at Fermilab is a collaboration of elementary-particle and nuclear physicists planning to use a fully active fine-grained solid scintillator detector. The overall goals of the experiment are to measure absolute exclusive cross-sections, nuclear effects in ν - A interactions and a systematic study of the resonance-DIS transition region including the extraction of high-xBj parton distribution functions at low Q2.