Application of quasirandom points for simulation of gamma radiation transfer

We have considered a photon transport problem for two configurations often encountered in nuclear geophysics. The usual Monte Carlo algorithm was modified so that the photon trajectories were constructed with the aid of uniformly distributed LPtau sequences and their lengths were restricted. An improvement in the rate of convergence was achieved and the truncation error was estimated. An attempt was made to compare numerically the rate of convergence of the modified algorithm and the usual Monte Carlo that uses pseudo-random numbers. (author)