Nuclear Decay as a Probe of Physics Beyond the Standard Model

Nuclear beta and electron capture (EC) decay serve as sensitive probes of the structure and symmetries of the charged weak force 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 physics 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 BSM physics within the context of the CKM and PMNS matrices. I will also discuss how we can use so-called "quantum sensors" to advance our ability to search for BSM physics via weak nuclear decay.