“…While it has been quite well established that dissipation is rather strong in the large-distortion range [9,10,11,2], the situation is still unclear in the small-deformation regime [12,13,14,15,16]. One of the reasons for the vivid debates concerning the strength of nuclear dissipation is the large amount of complex side effects entering into the description of the fission mechanism, in particular in fusion-fission experiments, which often induce large angular momenta and deformations.…”