Effect of the active-medium temperature on the kinetics of plasmachemical processes in directly nuclear-pumped xenon laser

The influence of the temperature of an active medium on the output characteristics of a directly nuclear-pumped laser on atomic transitions in xenon has been studied. It is shown that the quenching of generation before reaching a maximum of the pumping neutron flux is caused primarily by the temperature dependence of the reaction rate constant for the dissociation of heteronuclear ArXe + ions upon collisions with buffer gas atoms.