Magnetic recording film sputtering target for and carbon raw material used for its production

Pt is 5 to 60 mol%, and a residual alloy having a composition consisting of Fe, a sintered body sputtering target made of a non-magnetic material dispersed in the alloy includes 5 to 60 mol% of at least C as a non-magnetic material, sputtering target wherein the average grain area of C particles in vertical section with respect to the sputtering surface of the target is 50 [mu] m Without using an expensive co-sputtering device, it allows generation of the magnetic thin film of the thermally assisted magnetic recording medium, and to provide a sputtering target with a reduced amount of particles generated during sputtering. .FIELD 1