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Investigation of the lifetime of longitudinal phonons at GHz frequencies in liquid and solid4He

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The attenuation of longitudinal 1-GHz phonons was measured as a function of temperature in liquid4He at svp and at 23 bar as well as in hcp4He at 36 bar. The lifetime of the phonons which were generated by stimulated Brillouin scattering was determined optically by a probing light pulse. The results in liquid4He are discussed in terms of relaxation processes in the phonon and roton gas and are in good agreement with existing work. The attenuation in hcp4He, which approximately shows aT 4 temperature dependence, is attributed to three-phonon processes with longitudinal thermal phonons. A quantitative comparison with Landau-Rumer theory gives satisfactory agreement with the data. No effect of phonon dispersion on sound attenuation is found down to 0.8 K.

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    Present address: Centre de Tri, Max Planck Institut für Festkörperforschung, B.P. 166, F-38 Grenoble, France

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Berberich, P., Leiderer, P. & Hunklinger, S. Investigation of the lifetime of longitudinal phonons at GHz frequencies in liquid and solid4He. J Low Temp Phys 22, 61–84 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00655215

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