Investigations on light proton-rich nuclei with exotic structure Original Research Article

One of the proton halo candidates 23Al and its isotopes are systematically investigated in the nonlinear Relativistic Mean-Field and Skyrme Hartree-Fock approaches. It is shown that there exists the energy inversion of View the MathML source and View the MathML source orbitals in 23Al nucleus and which may produce the large enhancement of reaction cross section comparing with its neighboring nuclei. Meanwhile, it is obvious to see that the isospin effect of the pairing correlation plays a great role to the separation energy when the Al isotopes approach to the proton drip line. In addition, the ground state and excited state of 9B, 13N are also investigated in the RMF model. There may exist the halo structure in 13N when the last proton of 13N occupies in the first excited state.