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particle and the target respectively (so ), and is energy in the center of mass frame.

Accuracy of the approximation

For calculations of the energy of a particle, the relative error of the ultrarelativistic limit for a speed is about %, and for it is just %. For particles such as neutrinos, whose (Lorentz factor) are usually above ( practically indistinguishable from ), the approximation is essentially exact.

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