Abstract
As a fissioning nucleus approaches scission, the angular-momentum bearing modes in the evolving dinuclear complex may be agitated by multiple transfers of individual nucleons. It is discussed how this mechanism populates the various rotational modes at different rates and leads to fragment angular momenta that are preferentially perpendicular to the fission axis but mutually largely uncorrelated. Using the fission simulation code FREYA, it is demonstrated how a measurement of the angular distribution of photons from identified collective transitions in the product nuclei can provide quantitative information on the relative importance of the twisting mode in fission.
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