Fractional entropy of a relativistically decoupled species

ID: fractional-entropy-of-a-relativistically-decoupled-species

If a species and the remaining bath share a temperature at decoupling, their initial entropy ratio is the ratio of their entropy-weighted degrees of freedom. Subsequent conservation of each sector's comoving entropy keeps that fraction constant, even when the bath heats relative to the relic. For a two-state neutrino species leaving an ideal Standard Model bath, the fraction is .

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