Independent cross-sections of alkali isotopes produced in various targets bombarded by $^{12}C$ and $^{18}O$ ions up to 77 MeV/amu

The authors report on an online mass-spectrometric study of the isotopic distributions of nuclear reaction products. The two purposes of this experiment are the investigation of a particular aspect of reaction-mechanisms and the study of the possibility for exotic-nuclei production. The measurements have been carried out with the 86 MeV/amu /sup 12/C and /sup 18/O beams of the synchrocyclotron SC (CERN). By degradation in different sets of graphite slabs, three different energies: 13, 27 and 77 MeV/amu have been chosen. Due to the chemical selectivity for the alkali elements of the device, the isotopic distributions of Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs and Fr were measured in four targets: C, Nb, Ta and U. The independent yields obtained by direct ion counting are converted in cross-sections using a calibration of T. Lund et al.