Neutrino lasing in the early Universe

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Abstract
Recently, Madsen has argued that relativistic decays of massive neutrinos into lighter fermions and bosons may lead, via thermalization, to the formation of a Bose condensate. If correct, this could generate mixed hot and cold dark matter, with important consequences for structure formation. From a detailed study of such decays, we find that mixed dark matter can indeed form, but by a new physical mechanism; for a wide range of masses and decay times, we find that stimulated emission of bosons dominates the decay. This phenomenon can best be described as a neutrino laser, pumped by quark confinement. We discuss the implications for structure formation and the dark-matter problem.