THE MAIN OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT ARE: • BUILD ON SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS FROM PREVIOUS CAMPAIGNS ON LABORATORY ASTROPHYSICS, WHICH DROVE LASER-PLASMA PLUMES THROUGH MAGNETIZED AMBIENT PLASMAS TO SUCCESSFULLY STUDY THE FORMATION OF HIGH-MACH-NUMBER MAGNETIZED COLLISIONLESS SHOCKS. • USE THIS ESTABLISHED PLATFORM TO STUDY IN DETAIL IMPORTANT QUESTIONS RELATED TO COLLISIONLESS SHOCK HEATING. IN PARTICULAR, WE WILL MEASURE THE PARTICLE PHASE SPACE IN ORDER TO STUDY NON-ADIABATIC SHOCK HEATING OF ELECTRONS AND IONS BOTH PARALLEL AND PERPENDICULAR TO THE UPSTREAM MAGNETIC FIELD. WE WILL CORRELATE PARTICLE HEATING WITH LOCAL AND GLOBAL MEASUREMENTS OF SHOCK STRUCTURE, AND WE WILL OBSERVE THE DEPENDENCE OF THESE PROCESSES ON UPSTREAM PARAMETERS SUCH AS THE SHOCK MACH NUMBER AND MAGNETIC FIELD ORIENTATION. • COMPARE THE EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS WITH PREDICTIONS FROM PARTICLE-IN-CELL SIMULATIONS.