Predicting narrow states in the spectrum of a nucleus beyond the proton drip line

Phys Rev Lett. 2006 Feb 24;96(7):072502. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.072502. Epub 2006 Feb 23.

Abstract

Properties of particle-unstable nuclei lying beyond the proton drip line can be ascertained by considering the (usually known) properties of its mirror neutron-rich system. We have used a multichannel algebraic scattering theory to map the known properties of the neutron-14C system to those of the proton-14O one from which we deduce that the particle-unstable 15F will have a spectrum of two low-lying broad resonances of positive parity and, at higher excitation, three narrow negative-parity ones. A key feature is to use coupling to Pauli-hindered states in the target.