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Regularities in the transformation of the oscillating decay rate in moving unstable quantum systems

Decay laws of moving unstable quantum systems with oscillating decay rates are analyzed over intermediate times. The transformations of the decay laws at rest and of the intermediate times at rest, which are induced by the change of reference frame, are obtained by decomposing the modulus of the survival amplitude at rest into purely exponential and exponentially damped oscillating modes. The mass distribution density is considered to be approximately symmetric with respect to the mass of resonance. Under determined conditions, the modal decay widths at rest, $Γ_j$, and the modal frequencies of oscillations at rest, $Ω_j$, reduce regularly, $Γ_j/γ$ and $Ω_j/γ$, in the laboratory reference frame. Consequently, the survival probability at rest, the intermediate times at rest and, if the oscillations are periodic, the period of the oscillations at rest transform regularly in the laboratory reference frame according to the same time scaling, over a determined time window. The time scaling reproduces the relativistic dilation of times if the mass of resonance is considered to be the effective mass at rest of the moving unstable quantum system with relativistic Lorentz factor $γ$.