Solution

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At neutrino decoupling, neutrinos, electrons, positrons, and photons share one temperature. The neutrinos subsequently free stream, so . In the still-coupled electromagnetic plasma, the effective entropy degrees of freedom change during electron-positron annihilation in cosmology from
to . Separate cosmological entropy conservation in that plasma gives , while remains constant. Consequently the Cosmic neutrino background temperature obeys

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