Reaction Rates of Three-Particle Interactions in Relativistic Plasma.

We perform calculations of nonequilibrium reaction rates for all triple interactions in relativistic plasma including: relativistic bremsstrahlung, double Compton scattering, radiative pair production, triple pair production/annihilation and their inverse processes. Reaction rates are computed out of first principles, numerically integrating exact QED matrix elements over the phase space of particles. Example is given for photon emission by hot thermal electron–positron pairs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]