Weak interaction and fundamental symmetry studies with laser trapped atoms

Neutral atom laser traps are excellent tools to capture, confine, and manipulate radioactive isotopes. They provide high selectivity and sensitivity and allow preparing a cold sample of the isotope of interest in the center of a vacuum chamber supported only by laser light. In my talk, I will present applications of laser cooling and trapping techniques of radioactive isotopes for precision studies of fundamental symmetries and weak interactions. In particular, I will talk about the progress towards measuring the Schiff moment of $^{255}$Ra for searches of time reversal violation beyond the Standard Model and about a new experimental effort to search for possible tensor couplings in the weak decay of $^{6}$He.