In-Medium Mass Renormalization of Nucleons Detected in the Axial Charges of theβDecays of Spin AlignedB12andN12

Abstract
The axial charge of the weak nucleon axial vector current extracted from the anisotropic β-ray angular distributions of spin aligned 12B and 12N was accounted for mainly in terms of the impulse value yIA and the soft pion exchange effect term yexch. The experimental value, y=4.66±0.06(stat)±0.13(syst), was enhanced by 63% from the impulse value yIA=2.85 which includes the core polarization effect. The experimental excess of 0.54 over the theoretical value yIA+yexch=4.12 is accounted for by the in-medium mass reduction from the free nucleon value, if there is such an effect, of about (12±4)% for the nucleons decaying in the A=12 triad.