Two-stage entropy dilution of an early-decoupled neutrino

ID: two-stage-entropy-dilution-of-an-early-decoupled-neutrino

An extra relativistic neutrino that decouples before ordinary neutrinos misses two stages of plasma heating. Until ordinary decoupling, entropy conservation gives a temperature ratio . Electron-positron annihilation then heats photons but neither neutrino population, multiplying the ratio by . Here counts the coupled bath at the extra species' decoupling, with no subsequent exotic entropy injection.

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