I consider relaxation of the pairing amplitude in a disordered Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) superconductor in the absence of the two-particle collisions. My main assumption is that nonmagnetic and magnetic disorder scattering rates are much smaller than the value of the superconducting pairing gap ${\mathrm{\Delta }}_0$. I derive a system of nonlinear equations which describe the collisionless relaxation of the pairing amplitude following a quench of the pairing strength. I find that in a superconductor in which scattering on paramagnetic impurities is dominant, the pairing amplitude in a steady state varies periodically with time even for small deviations from equilibrium. It is shown that such a steady state emerges due to scattering on paramagnetic impurities which leads to a decrease in the value of the resonant frequency of the amplitude mode below $2{\mathrm{\Delta }}_0$.

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• Electron-phonon coupling
• Superconducting fluctuations
• Superconducting gap
• Superconducting phase transition
• s-wave
• Disordered systems
• Low-temperature superconductors
• BCS theory
• Green's function methods