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= Solution

The photon starts at $x'_E=\gamma L$ and travels left to the runner at the fixed <position> $x'=0$. Thus
$$
\boxed{d'_\gamma=\gamma L,\qquad \Delta t'_\gamma=\frac{\gamma L}{c}.}
$$
This distance is not the simultaneous contracted tunnel length $L/\gamma$, because the runner is not at the entrance when the photon is emitted in $S'$. Adding the entrance-to-runner gap from part (ii) to $L/\gamma$ indeed gives $\gamma L$.

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