From the introduction: Our studies of fusion-fission reactions and multi-nucleon transfer processes in low-energy heavy ion collisions demonstrated that the shell effects have also a strong influence upon evolution of heavy nuclear systems. Low-energy nuclear dynamics is regulated mainly by the multidimensional potential energy surface in the space of collective variables. At low excitation energies the nuclear system creeps along the fission and quasi-fission valleys of the potential energy caused by the nascent cluster structure. It falls and delays in the local minima of this potential surface (shape isomeric states) and finally splashes out in the exit channels with formation of energetically favorable closed shell nuclei.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1201.81003].