EJCI is a rhombus by symmetry

Can you now finish the problem ..........

Area of rhombus is half product of its diagonals....

can you finish the problem........

Let Side length of a cube be x.

then by the pythagorean  theorem$ EC=X \sqrt {3}$

$JI =X \sqrt {2}$

Now the area of the rhombus is half product of its diagonals

therefore the area of the cross section is $\frac {1}{2} \times (EC \times JI)=\frac{1}{2}(x\sqrt3 \times x\sqrt2)=\frac {x^2\sqrt6}{2}$

This shows that $R= \frac{\sqrt6}{2}$

i.e$ R^2=\frac{3}{2}$