Solution

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The laboratory flight time is . By time dilation, the accumulated proper time is . The definition of the rest-frame half-life gives at least one-half survival when , or . Equivalently,
Solving for the minimum speed gives
Under the usual exponential decay law, the survival probability is exactly . This is relativistic decay survival to a detector.

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