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Presented is a Monte Carlo calculation of the distributions of absorbed energy and photon and energy fluxes in a hemisphere of water with a 1.26 MeVγ-ray point source at the center. Finite and infinite radii of the hemisphere are considered, and the results are compared with those obtained by numerical integration and by an approximate calculation. It is shown that in no case do the differences exceed 13%.
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Makhlis, F.A., Sugak, L.A., Galkina, N.N. et al. Calculation of the absorption of γ-ray energy. Journal of Engineering Physics 8, 463–465 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00830331
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