A relativistic/QED theory of light pressure on electrons by an isotropic, in
particular blackbody radiation predicts thermalization rates of free electrons
over entire span of energies available in the lab and the nature. The
calculations based on the QED Klein-Nishina theory of electron-photon
scattering and relativistic Fokker-Planck equation, show that the transition
from classical (Thompson) to QED (Compton) thermalization determined by the
product of electron energy and radiation temperature, is reachable under
conditions for controlled nuclear fusion, and predicts large acceleration of
electron thermalization in the Compton domain and strong damping of plasma
oscillations at the temperatures near plasma nuclear fusion.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with
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