**Nuclear-Induced Plasmas of Gas Mixtures and Nuclear-Pumped Lasers**

Mendykhan U. Khasenov

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#### **Abstract**

We briefly describe the basic processes of formation and relaxation of nuclear-induced plasmas of gas mixtures, especially the processes of inverse population creation in nuclear-pumped lasers (NPL). A review of the work to create and research nuclearpumped lasers is in progress: on transitions of atoms and atomic ions and on molecu‐ lar transitions. An increased focus is on the gas media, which we also study on WWR-K nuclear reactor and DC-60 ion accelerator. The studies on emission of heteronuclear ionic molecules of inert gases are also reviewed.

**Keywords:** laser, ionizing pumping, mechanism of population, recombination, direct excitation
