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  • Electroweak axial structure...
    Shiells, K; Blunden, P G; Melnitchouk, W

    Physical review. D, 08/2021, Letnik: 104, Številka: 3
    Journal Article

    We present a comprehensive analysis of the γW interference radiative correction to the neutron β-decay matrix element. Within a dispersion relations approach, we compute the axial-vector part of the γW box amplitude □γWA in terms of the isoscalar part of the FγW3 interference structure function. Using the latest available phenomenology for FγW3 from the nucleon elastic, resonance, deep-inelastic, and Regge regions, we find the real part of the box correction to be □γWA = 3.90 (9) × 10−3. This improved correction gives a theoretical estimate of the CKM matrix element |Vud|2 = 0.94805 (26), which represents a 4σ violation of unitarity.