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We have carried out some photon interaction measurements using 59.54 keV γ-rays from a
241Am source. These include γ attenuation studies as well as photoelectric absorption studies in various samples. The attenuation
studies have been made using leaf and wood samples, samples like sand, sugar etc., which contain particles of varying sizes
as well as pellets and aqueous solutions of rare earth compounds. In the case of the leaf and wood samples, we have used the
γ-ray attenuation technique for the determination of the water content in fresh and dried samples. The variation of the attenuation
coefficient with particle size has been investigated for sand and sugar samples. The attenuation studies as well as the photoelectric
studies in the case of rare earth elements have been carried out on samples containing such elements whose K-absorption edge
energies lie below and close to the γ-energy used. Suitable compounds of the rare earth elements have been chosen as mixture
absorbers in these investigations. A narrow beam good geometry set-up was used for the attenuation measurements. A well-shielded
scattering geometry was used for the photoelectric measurements. The mixture rule was invoked to extract the values of the
mass attenuation coefficients for the elements from those of the corresponding compounds. The results are consistent with
theoretical values derived from the XCOM package.
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