Trammell, George T.2018-12-182018-12-181977Word, Robert E.. "Theory of thermal neutron scattering by nuclear spin waves." (1977) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/104137">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/104137</a>.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/104137Text includes handwritten formulasNeutron spectrometers having the capability of resolving the energy of the slow neutron with an error of less than 1^-7 ev have been constructed within recent years, making it possible to measure dynamical processes of correspondingly finer energies. This thesis investigates coupled electronic-nuclear spin waves which are coupled by the hyperfine interaction. The differential cross section and scattered state polarization for the scattering of thermal neutrons from systems described by the Suhl-Nakamura Hamiltonian are developed in the Van Hove correlation function formalism; the relevant correlation functions for the Suhl-Nakamura system are computed.1 The implications of these calculations for the feasibility of detecting nuclear spin wave modes in neutron scattering experiments are discussed.175 ppengCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.ThesisRICE1764reformatted digitalThesis Phys. 1977 Word