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abstract: 'Fusion-fission dynamics is investigated with a special emphasis on fusion reactions at low energy for which shell effects and pairing correlations can play a crucial role leading in particular to multi-modal fission. To follow the dynamical evolution of an excited and rotating nucleus we solve a 2-dimensional Langevin equation taking explicitly light-particle evaporation into account. The confrontation theory-experiment is demonstrated to give interesting information on the model presented, its qualities as well as its shortcomings.'
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    Ch. Schmitt$^1$, J. Bartel$^1$, K. Pomorski$^{1,2}$, A. Surowiec$^2$\
    [*$^1$IReS – IN2P3/CNRS and Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France*]{}\
    [*$^2$Katedra Fizyki Teoretycznej, Uniwersytet M. C. Skłodowskiej, Lublin, Poland*]{}
title: 'Fission-Fragment Mass Distribution and Particle Evaporation at low Energies [^1]'
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Introduction
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The description of the dynamical evolution of a compound nucleus along its way to fission, i.e. from its rather compact ground-state shape to its scission configuration, represents an intricate problem. Many ingredients enter into the description of such a process, starting from a sufficiently precise account of the formation of the compound system, to the determination of the multi-dimensional energy landscape, to the coupling between the collective dynamics and the intrinsic degrees of freedom of the nucleus, to the concept 