A particle with rest mass mm is in a particle accelerator and is at rest in the accelerator's reference frame. Another particle with rest mass mm is driven into the first particle with a speed of 45c\frac{4}{5}c with respect to the accelerator. The two particles undergo a perfectly inelastic collision with no dissipation of energy.

Compute the speed of the new particle in the accelerator's reference frame.

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