Effect of fission following incomplete fusion on the interpretation of fission fragment angular distributions in heavy-ion fusion reactions

It is shown that with the inclusion of fission following incomplete fusion in addition to the normal equilibrium fission following compound nucleus formation and the recently proposed pre-equilibrium fission, one can understand in a quantitative way the host of apparently anomalous fragment angular distributions measured in a number of heavy ion induced fission reactions involving the highly fissile actinides as one of the collision partners