HEAVY ION FUSION SCIENCE VIRTUAL NATIONAL LABORATORY 3nd QUARTER 2009 MILESTONE REPORT: Upgrade plasma source configuration and carry out initial experiments. Characterize improvements in focal spot beam intensity

HIFAN 1757 HEAVY ION FUSION SCIENCE VIRTUAL NATIONAL LABORATORY, 3rd QUARTER 2009 MILESTONE REPORT, Upgrade plasma source configuration and carry out initial experiments. Characterize improvements in focal spot beam intensity by S. Lidia, A. Anders, F.M. Bieniosek, A. Faltens, W. Greenway, J.Y. Jung, T. Katayanagi, B.G. Logan, C.W. Lee, M. Leitner, P. Ni, A. Pekedis, M. J. Regis, P. K. Roy, P. A. Seidl, W. Waldron Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA J.J. Barnard, A. Friedman, D. Grote, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550, USA M. Dorf, E. Gilson Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Accelerator Fusion Research Division Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory University of California June 2009 This work was supported by the Director, Office of Science, Office of Fusion Energy Sciences, of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.