Solution

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The original PDF threshold contains , not . It is , so the energies strictly above it are exactly those with . By the Born rule, the required probability is . The two excluded amplitudes are
Consequently
Thus, in increasing powers of ,
The threshold lies strictly between and , so no equality-at-threshold convention affects the answer.

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