1–6 Jun 2025
Taipei International Convention Center (TICC)
Asia/Taipei timezone

BeamPIE – a suborbital test of an accelerator for space applications

FRZD2
6 Jun 2025, 11:30
30m
Room 101, First Floor (TICC)

Room 101, First Floor

TICC

Invited Oral Presentation FRZD: Friday Plenary Invited Oral

Speaker

Quinn Marksteiner (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Description

Summary: An experiment to fly an accelerator in space recently concluded successfully. Discuss the objectives, differences from terrestrial accelerators, and results from the flight.
Accelerators have the potential to play a major role in space-based activities. These can range from investigation of the Earth’s magnetic field, to helping mitigate the effects of increased solar activity (e.g. by helping drain the Earth’s radiation belts of charged particles), to deep-space missions. There are many challenges associated with operating accelerators in a space-based environment, however, ranging from high-voltage systems, to thermal management, to spacecraft charging. The Beam-Plasma Interaction Experiment – BeamPIE – was a small electron accelerator launched on a sounding rocket in 2023, to both explore the interaction of an electron beam with the near-earth plasma environment, and to test several new approaches to accelerator design in a space environment. This talk presents an overview of the BeamPIE accelerator design, mission objectives, and results from its flight.

Region represented America

Author

Quinn Marksteiner (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Co-authors

Angus Guider (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Brian Haynes (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Bruce Carlsten (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Mr Christopher Roper (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Chuch Clanton (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Darrel Beckman (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Doug Patrick (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Geoff Reeves (New Mexico Consortium) Gian Luca Delzanno (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Haoran Xu (Los Alamos National Laboratory) James Sheldon (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Dr John Lewellen (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Juan Moreno (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Karl Smith (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Michael Giblin (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Michael Holloway (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Rebecca Holmes (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Robert Aragonez (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Ryan Hemphill (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Vitaly Pavlenko (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

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