Pipkin Award: Rare Isotopes and Superconducting Sensors - A New Path to the Precision Frontier

Electroweak nuclear decay of short-lived, rare isotopes serve as sensitive, model-independent probes of the structure and symmetries of the forces between quarks and leptons. As such, precision measurements of the final-state products in these processes can be used as powerful laboratories to search for new particles and forces that exist from the meV to TeV scale. Significant advances in rare isotope availability and quality, coupled with decades of sensing technique development from the AMO community have led us into a new era of fundamental tests of nature using unstable nuclei. In this talk, I will discuss how we search for new physics within the context of the symmetric matrices of the standard model. I will also discuss how we can further advance our ability to search for BSM physics via weak nuclear decay.