Abstract
Previous neutron scattering experiments on single crystal of Sendust alloy (73.5 at. % Fe, 17 at. % Al, and 9.5 at. % of Si) revealed extremely high spin wave damping at room temperature. The aim of present studies was to test if the spin wave damping originates from lattice disorder or comes from mutual spin waves interactions or other excitations that would be temperature dependent. The spin wave dispersion relation and damping were studied in temperature range from 8 to 295 K. No regular changes of both spin wave damping and stiffness constant (which characterises dispersion relation) with temperature were found. Thus, within this temperature range, spin waves interactions with dynamical excitations of all kinds must be negligible, and their damping is most likely produced by lattice disorder alone. It is of interest to note that the inelastic background intensity below the spin wave peaks increases with temperature and for energy transfers higher than 30 meV this increase is larger than that of spin-wave peak intensity.
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