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By making use of stimulated Brillouin scattering, hypersonic absorption and velocity measurements in quartz glass were carried out at 24 GHz. Absorption data for longitudinal sound waves are presented below 8°K and velocity data between 4° and 300°K. The hypersonic absorption is observed to decrease strongly on cooling corresponding to a mean free path of the hypersonic phonons larger than 2 mm below 3.5°K. This value exceeds the mean free path calculated from heat conductivity data at 1.5°K for thermal phonons of similar energy by three orders of magnitude. The absorption data are discussed in connection with previous lower-frequency measurements.
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Heinicke et al. (1971) studied this question.
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