Abstract. We report new measurements of the near infrared (NIR) Xe * 2 excimer fluorescence in an electronbeam-excited Ar (90%)-Xe (10 %) mixture at room temperature. Previous measurements up to a density N ≈ 2 × 10 26 m −3 discovered a broad excimer fluorescence band at ≈ 7800 cm −1 , whose center is redshifted by increasing N (A. F. Borghesani, G. Bressi, G. Carugno, E. Conti, and D. Iannuzzi, J. Chem. Phys., 115, 6042 (2001) [1]). The shift has been explained by assuming that the energy of the optical active electron in the molecule is shifted by the density-dependent Fermi shift and by accounting for the solvation effect due to the environment. We have extended the density range up to N ≈ 6 × 10 26 m −3 , confirming the previous measurements and extending the validity of the interpretative model. A detailed analysis of the width of the fluorescence band gives a value of 2.85 nm for the size of the investigated excimer state. Such a large value lends credence to the validity of the proposed explanation of the experimental findings.