Broadening of the Raman scattering (RS) spectra was studied in monolayer graphene samples irradiated with various dose of ions followed by annealing of radiation damage at different temperatures. It is shown that the width {Gamma} (full width at half maximum, FWHM) of three main RS lines (G-, D-, and 2D) increases linearly with increase of the density of irradiation-induced point defects N d as {Delta}{Gamma} = m N d . The slope m of the linear dependencies is the same for one-phonon emitting G-line and D-line, and almost double for two-phonon emitting 2D-line. It is also shown that the width of D-line {Gamma} D for all samples is larger than one half of the width of 2D-line {Gamma} 2D , which shows that in the case of D-line, elastic electron scattering on point defects leads to an additional decreasing the lifetime of the emitted phonon. Theoretical model of the width of D-line in disordered graphene is developed which explains the experimental observations and allows to determine the numerical coefficient in the in-plane transverse optic phonon dispersion in graphene.
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