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

Proton-^133Cs 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 ^133Cs ions at 199.4 MeV/u are detected by a silicon-strip detector. The matter radius of ^133Cs 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 ^133Cs is obtained. With the newly determined neutron radius, the weak mixing angle sin^2 θ_W is independently extracted to be 0.227(28) by fitting the coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering data. Our work limits the sin^2 θ_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 CEνNS-CsI cross section data in the near future.