I think it is because a mass particle is a looped photon, as described here
Preprint Kinetic capacity effect of photons and rest mass particles, ...
The effect alone is here Preprint Half photon effect discovered for mass particles: kinetic ca...
which delivers factor 2.When relativisticaly moved a "half of looped photon" is Doppler shifted blue and other antiparallel one is shifted red, building exactly a known relativistic sum with Lorentz transformation.
By a relatively move only a blue half photon is taking part in an interaction of kinetic energy.
This is also true for spin, which is 1/2 for mass particles and 1 for photons, when we measure inteactions showing us the spin. So the half photon is hided in such interactions.
In a momentum interaction both blue and red half photons in the photonloop are taking part, therefore with whole rest mass. Both loops are for a moment running united in a common loop, but then they devide because tigether it is an unstable particle build.
That model shows, that properties of particles are not a priory as is, but depend on that certain interaction. Interactions are given by nature and we just descovered them as they are. We cannot push the red site on looped photon to interact in spin and kinetic interactions, andwe cannot push red site nottotake part in momentum interactions.
The looped photon model is delivering a vividly explain. The red half photon is running away with speed of light and therefore cannnot be reached by the interaction particle partner. The blue half photon runs against the blue one of the interaction partner, so they can interact.