Ak. Mohanty et al., EFFECT OF CHANNEL COUPLING ON SPIN DISTRIBUTION AT AND ABOVE COULOMB BARRIER ENERGIES, Physical review. C. Nuclear physics, 48(3), 1993, pp. 1445-1448
The energy dependence of the fusion spin distribution has been studied
in terms of its scaled moments. It is shown that the effect of channe
l coupling of spin distribution, particularly the effect of coupling o
f the shape degree of freedom to the translational motion, is much str
onger at and above Coulomb barrier energies, even though the effect on
fusion cross section is largest at sub-barrier energies.