Solution

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By time dilation, the laboratory mean lifetime is , where . The exponential decay law evaluated at travel time gives the surviving pion fraction
Use the exact product from part (a), rather than approximating the speed separately. With ,
Thus about emerge without decaying, and about decay inside the pipe. This assumes the given common longitudinal speed and neglects losses from other interactions.

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