Neutron radius determination of 133Cs and its impact on the interpretation of CEvNS-CsI measurement

Abstract

Proton-${}^{133}$Cs elastic scattering at low momentum transfer is performed using an in-ring reaction technique at the Cooler Storage Ring at the Heavy Ion Research Facility in Lanzhou. Recoil protons from the elastic collisions between the internal H${}_2$-gas target and the circulating ${}^{133}$Cs ions at 199.4 MeV/u are detected by a silicon-strip detector. The matter radius of ${}^{133}$Cs is deduced by describing the measured differential cross sections using the Glauber model. Employing the adopted proton distribution radius, a point-neutron radius of 4.86(21) fm for ${}^{133}$Cs is obtained. With the newly determined neutron radius, the weak mixing angle sin${}^2\hat{I}{¸}_W$ is independently extracted to be 0.227(28) by fitting the coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering data. Our work limits the sin${}^2\hat{I}{¸}_W$ value in a range smaller than the ones proposed by the previous independent approaches, and would play an important role in searching new physics via the high precision CE$\hat{I}½$NS-CsI cross section data in the near future.