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A π meson (rest mass 135MeV/c²) moving through the laboratory at a speed of 0.998c decays into two gamma-ray photons. The two photons have equal energies Eγ and move at equal angles ? on opposite sides of the direction of motion of the original π meson. Calculate Eγ and θ.

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