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No. 3 September 1999 pp. 521–528 Some aspects of heavy ion fusion–fission dynamics D V SHETTY, R K CHOUDHURY*, B K NAYAK, D M NADKARNI and S S KAPOOR Nuclear Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai 400 085, India Email: rkc@magnum.barc.ernet.in *Corresponding author Abstract. Study of heavy ion induced fusion–fission reactions at near and below barrier energies has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years, due to the observations of anomalous features in the fragment angular distributions for many target–projectile systems. Additionally there are also measurements of the fragment spin distributions and time-scales of the fusion–fission reactions, which have provided important information on the dynamics of these processes. In the present paper, the emphasis would be to highlight some of the recent experimental findings and their implications on the dynamics of the fusion–fission reactions in heavy ion collisions at near and above barrier energies. Keywords. Heavy ions; fission; spin distribution of fission fragments; K-equilibration. PACS No. 25.70.Jj |