Solution

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From c, , with equality when : the photons are emitted perpendicular to the Lorentz boost axis in the center-of-momentum frame. Therefore
At the minimum, the map is stationary: writing , its leading behavior is . A nonzero interval of uniformly distributed is therefore compressed near , producing an integrable inverse-square-root singularity in the opening-angle probability density. No differentiation of that probability density is needed. For finite , the probability density vanishes at . For the center-of-momentum frame is the laboratory and every event has : the probability distribution becomes a Dirac delta distribution, rather than the singular substitution in c. At large , in radians.
Figure 1.
Opening-angle compression and its normalized probability density for a boosted two-photon decay
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