The transverse acoustic response in the B phase of superfluid ~(3)He has been measured using an AC-cut quartz transducer at a pressure of 17.0 bar. The measurements were performed by a CW bridge method at a frequency of 9.3 MHz utilizing a quadrature hybrid and a high-frequency lock-in amplifier. By sweeping frequency around the resonance frequency of the transducer, in-phase and quadrature responses of the resonance were obtained from the output of the lock-in amplifier. We successfully separated the quality factor and the resonance frequency. Quality factor of the transducer had a small dip just below T_(c) and increased as (rho)_(n) by cooling, while its resonance frequency decreased sharply at T_(c) and gradually recovered to the normal state value in the low temperature limit.
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