Relativistic entropy content of the Standard Model
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In the ideal-gas high-temperature limit, the Standard Model has 28 boson states: 16 gluon states, eight electroweak gauge boson states and four Higgs field states. Its 90 fermion states are 72 quark states, 12 charged lepton states and six neutrino states. Counting a relativistic fermion state with weight gives the displayed effective number of relativistic entropy degrees of freedom. The effective number of relativistic energy degrees of freedom has the same value when all species share a temperature. Mass thresholds and interactions change the ideal-gas count.
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