Deformed halo of F
Ikuko Hamamoto (Center for Nuclear Study, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Division of Mathematical Physics, Lund Institute of Technology at the University of Lund, Lund, Sweden)
Using a simple model based on the knowledge of spherical and deformed Woods-Saxon potentials, it is shown that the recent observation of halo phenomena in $^{29}$F can be interpreted as evidence for the prolate deformation of the ground state of $^{29}$F. The prolate deformation is the result of the shell structure, which is unique in one-neutron resonant levels, in particular near degeneracy of the neutron and resonant levels, together with the strong preference of prolate shape by the proton number . On the other hand, in oxygen isotopes spherical shape is so much favored by the proton number that the presence of possible neutron shell-structure may not make the system deformed. Thus, the strong preference of particular shape by the proton numbers 8 and 9, respectively, together with a considerable amount of the energy difference between the neutron and orbits in oxygen isotopes seems to play an important role in the phenomena of oxygen neutron drip line anomaly, as was suggested by H. Sakurai et al. in 1999.