Hitting time of a sphere by a Brownian particle

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Consider a Brownian particle in $\mathbb{R}^n$, starting at the origin. Let us consider a sphere of radius $r$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$ centered at the origin. We know that the probability that the particle strikes the sphere within time $r^2$ is in fact a number independent of $r$.

My question is, is it known what the (approximate) numerical value of this probability is? In dimension $n = 1$, it is easy to calculate this directly from the standard normal distribution, but in higher dimensions, I do not know how to do this. Any suggestion will be highly appreciated.

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According to https://fbe.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/2592040/116.pdf page 6, the transition density function of the squared Bessel process with dimension $\delta$ (which is the dimension of you Brownian motion) is given by

$$ f_t^\delta(0,y) = \frac{y^{\delta/2-1} }{(2t)^{\delta/2} \Gamma(\delta/2)} e^{-y/(2t)}, $$ so if my suggestion is right, the answer to the question is the integral value

$$\int_0^1 \int_1^\infty f_t^\delta(0,y) \, dy\, dt.$$