Dr. Pates' research interests include:

• The role of angular momentum in low-energy collisions of medium-mass nuclei
• The lifetimes of states of neutron-rich fp- shell nuclei
• The measurement of spin-dependent asymmetries in nucleon-nucleon scattering to test models of meson-exchange forces
• The use of internal target in particle storage rinds as an important experimental tool
• THe use of deep-inelastic scattering to explore the quark-gluon structure of nucleons
• The adventure of investigating the properties of matter at extremes of energy density and temperature