Electroweak nuclear radii constrain the isospin breaking correction to $V_{ud}$

Abstract

We lay out a novel formalism to connect the isospin-symmetry breaking correction to the rates of superallowed nuclear beta decays, ${\delta }_{\text{C}}$, to the isospin-breaking sensitive combinations of electroweak nuclear radii that can be accessed experimentally. We individuate transitions in the superallowed decay chart where a measurement of the neutron skin of a stable daughter even at a moderate precision could already help discriminating between models used to compute ${\delta }_{\text{C}}$. We review the existing experimental situation and make connection to the existing and future experimental programs.

Comments: Version to appear on PLB. Some typos (e.g. the expansion formula of ${\bar{f}}_{+}(t)$) are corrected and a new section on experimental feasibility is included