Highly excited and rapidly rotating compound nuclei (CN) produced in fusion-evaporation (FE) reactions can be well investigated by using charged particle spectroscopy. In such hot nuclei, with excitation energies as high as E*CN = 80 MeV, the spectral shapes of \alpha particles provide information on the nuclear deformation. We report here on in-plane light charged particle (LCP) --- heavy-ion (HI) coincident measurements for the 16{O} + 28Si reaction. The experiment was carried out at three bombarding energies, Elab(16{O}) = 76, 96 and 112 MeV with the multidetector array ICARE at the VIVITRON Tandem facility. The Monte Carlo version of the statistical-model code CASCADE, which describes the FE process, has been used to characterize the 44Ti CN. A unique set of deformability parameters reproduces well the experimental \alpha spectra to the three bombarding energies. The discrepancies observed for the proton spectra are still to be explained.
PACS numbers: 25.70.Gh, 25.70.Jj, 25.70.Mn, 24.60.Dr
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