Fig. 52: Dispersion relation of the energy position parameter h as a function of Q at the indicated temperatures. The h parameter has been obtained fitting the inelastic part of the IXS data to a damped harmonic oscillator model. The excitation values have been scaled by the factor co(278 K) / co(T), with co(T) obtained from the equation-of-state. This has been done to emphasise in the same plot the departure of the dispersion relation from the co(T) law, shown by the solid line, which is valid in the Q 0$ limit. This figure demonstrates that, in the dispersion relations, the transition from co to c takes place at increasing Q values with increasing temperatures.

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