THE OMEGA EP LASER FACILITY PROVIDES TWO HIGH-ENERGY PICOSECOND CLASS LASER PULSES AND ENABLES UNIQUE EXPERIMENTS TO BE PERFORMED. FOCUSING ONE OF THE OMEGA EP SHORT-PULSE BEAMS INTO A GAS-JET TARGET WOULD ALLOW THE STUDY OF DLA UNDER WELL CONTROLLED CONDITIONS. THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN TEAM WILL CHARACTERIZE THE ELECTRON BEAM USING MAGNETIC SPECTROMETER (EPPS). THE SECOND HIGH-POWER PICOSECOND LASER PULSE ALLOWS SIMULTANEOUS PROTON RADIOGRAPHY OF THE CHANNEL, PROVIDING EXCEPTIONAL INSIGHT INTO THE ACCELERATION PROCESSES. THE FORMATION OF A CHANNEL THROUGH THE UNDERDENSE PLASMA IS BELIEVED TO BE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING THE ACCELERATION PROCESSES SO IN ADDITION TO OBSERVING THE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS VIA A PROTON PROBING DIAGNOSTIC, THE 4¿ OPTICAL PROBE BEAM WOULD PROVIDE VALUABLE DATA ON THE ELECTRON DENSITY OF THE CHANNEL. PARTICLE-IN-CELL NUMERICAL MODELING WILL PROVIDE INSIGHT INTO THE PHYSICS OF THE INTERACTIONS TO HELP GUIDE THE EXPERIMENTS AND EXPLAIN THE RESULTS. THEY WOULD INVESTIGATE HOW TO USE THE DLA ELECTRON BEAMS TO GENERATE SECONDARY RADIATION SOURCES OF X-RAYS AND POSITRONS. AS THE ELECTRONS ARE ACCELERATED VIA DLA, THEY STRONGLY OSCILLATE IN THE LASER FIELDS, NATURALLY LEADING TO THE GENERATION OF A BRIGHT, DIRECTIONAL, BROADBAND X-RAY BEAM. TO PRODUCE POSITRONS, A HIGH-Z TARGET, CONVERTS THE ELECTRONS BEAM INTO PAIRS VIA BREMSSTRAHLUNG. THE DUAL PULSE ALSO MAY BE CONFIGURED TO ALLOW CO-PROPAGATION. THIS WOULD ALLOW THE LEADING PULSE TO HAVE LARGE F-NUMBER FOCUSING IDEAL FOR GENERATING A LONG CHANNEL, FOLLOWED BY A HIGH-ENERGY, HIGH-INTENSITY PULSE TO ACCELERATE ELECTRONS.