 Equal-energy atmospheric muon-pair survival

A vertically incident particle annihilating with a stationary target into two equal-energy muons gives each half the incident longitudinal momentum, while their transverse momenta are opposite. At height $H$ above a locally flat surface, each proper flight time is $2H{m}_{\mu }{c}^2/[c(p_{\mathrm{in}}c)]$, since $\gamma v_z=p_z/m_{\mu }$. Independent exponential particle decays then give the displayed joint survival probability. Atmospheric energy loss, scattering and curvature are omitted; replacing both trajectories by vertical paths would miss the two-body angular correction.