THE ATTENUATION OF SECOND SOUND IN LIQUID HELIUM II ABOVE 1°K.
- 1 June 1954
- journal article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Physics
- Vol. 32 (6) , 381-392
- https://doi.org/10.1139/p54-040
Abstract
The second sound was in the form of a pulsed continuous wave with a pulse length of 1 to 2 msec, and a carrier frequency of 10 or 20 kc./s. The change in amplitude of the pulse was measured as the distance between the transmitter and the receiver was varied. To avoid boundary effects, no propagation tube was used and allowance had to be made for the spreading of the second sound beam. The attenuation was found to increase with increasing second sound amplitude. The attenuation extrapolated to zero amplitude had a finite value which increased rapidly as the temperature was lowered towards 1°K. Its order of magnitude was too large to be explained by viscosity effects, but was in good agreement with a thermal conductivity effect predicted by Khalatnikov.Keywords
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