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

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