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Temperature ratio of an early-decoupled neutrino (TX​/Tγ​=[43/(11g∗s,D​)]1/3)

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A relativistic species decoupling before ordinary neutrino decoupling cools as TX​∝a−1. Cosmological entropy conservation in the remaining bath gives TX​/Tν​=[10.75/g∗s,D​]1/3, where g∗s,D​ counts that bath just after the early species has left it. Subsequent electron-positron annihilation in cosmology gives Tν​/Tγ​=(4/11)1/3. For the ideal high-temperature relativistic entropy content of the Standard Model, the resulting ratio is about 0.332.

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