Model-independent determination of nuclear weak form factors and implications for Vud and CKM unitarity

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Abstract

We analyze the recoil corrections in superallowed beta decays of $T=1$, $J^P=0^+$ nuclei by fixing the mean square charge weak radius model-independently using the data of multiple charge radii across the nuclear isotriplet. We argue that the existing theory uncertainty in the statistical rate function $f$ might have been substantially underestimated. We discuss its possible impact on precise Vud determination and first-row CKM unitarity.

*This work is supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, under the FRIB Theory Alliance award DE-SC0013617, and by the DOE grant DE-FG02-97ER41014.

Publication: arXiv: 2212.02681 [nucl-th]

Presenters

  • Chien Yeah Seng

    • University of Washington

Authors

  • Chien Yeah Seng

    • University of Washington