 Logarithmic cooling during cannibalism

The nonrelativistic entropy at zero chemical potential and $s_{\varphi }{a}^3=\mathrm{constant}$ give $x+\frac{1}{2}\log x=3\log a+\mathrm{constant}$. Using this leading nonrelativistic approximation, differentiation yieldsThis is much smaller in magnitude than the relativistic-bath cooling rate $-1$ when $x\gg 1$ and its entropy degrees of freedom are fixed. Thus cannibal phase of a decoupled sector cooling is logarithmic. Once number-changing reactions freeze out, a number-conserving nonrelativistic gas instead cools as $a^{-2}$ during adiabatic expansion.