“…On the other hand, experiments, performed at SHIP recently, that used considerably higher bombarding energies of E/A = 14.5 MeV/u [2], resulted in an evaporation residue cross section O-ER--~2.3 mb for the system 4~ + 181Ta, which is more than an order of magnitude higher than the cross sections obtained close to the barrier [I]. Qualitatively this high cross section can be under-* Present address: Instituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori di Legnaro, 1-35020 Legnaro, Padova (Italy) stood on the basis of recent experimental and theoretical studies I- [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. It indicates a dominance of a fast particle emission over the slow fission process, especially in the early stage of the compound nucleus deexcitation, i.e.…”