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title: 'Testing CCQE and 2p2h models in the [<span style="font-variant:small-caps;">NEUT</span>]{}neutrino interaction generator with published datasets from the [MiniBooNE]{}and [MINER$\nu$A]{}experiments'
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Introduction {#sec:intro}
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Charged Current Quasi-Elastic (CCQE) scattering ($\nu_{\mu} + n \rightarrow p + \mu^{-}$) is the dominant neutrino interaction process for muon (anti)neutrinos impinging on a nuclear target at neutrino energies on the order of 1GeV. Because CCQE is a two-body process and the incoming neutrino direction is known for an accelerator experiment, a reasonable approximation of the neutrino energy can be calculated using only the outgoing lepton kinematics. Because of this, CCQE is the preferred signal process for neutrino oscillation experiments which generally require some handle on the incoming neutrino energy to extract neutrino oscillation parameters due to $\nu_\mu^{\bracketbar}$ disappearance or $\nu_e^{\bracketbar}$ appearance in this energy region. However, nuclear effects and interactions which are not distinguishable from CCQE in the final state bias or smear the reconstructed neutrino 