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[en] Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments were carried out in two heavy fermion superconductors, CeCu2Si2 and U/sub 1-x/Th/sub x/Be13 (x = 0,0.0331). The unusual normal state and superconducting state behavior of CeCu2Si2 and UBe13 has recently been discovered. Both compounds exhibit enormous values of the normal state low temperature magnetic susceptibility chi and the linear specific heat coefficient γ. Standard analyses of chi and γ results in a two order of magnitude enhancement of the conduction electron mass, but the ratio chi/γ retains a value appropriate to a free-electron gas. It is of interest to obtain as much microscopic information as possible. In one of the CeCu2Si2 superconducting specimens, the observed temperature dependence of the spin-lattice relaxation rate 1/T1 (T) is consistent with a conventional quasi-particle excitation spectrum below the superconducting transition temperature T/sub c/. In the other superconducting CeCu2Si2 sample, the nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate decreases drastically just below T/sub c/ without the apparent enhancement observed in the first sample. The spin lattice relaxation rate in UBe13 varies approximately as T3 well below the transition temperature T/sub c/., This behavior is consistent with a class of anisotropic pairing models for which the superconducting gap vanishes along lines on the Fermi surface
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1986; 308 p; University Microfilms Order No. 86-23,057; Thesis (Ph. D.).
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