Quadrupole Deformations of Drip-Line Nuclei

The Hartree Fock Bogolyubov method in a Transformed Harmonic Oscillator basis (HFB+THO) is presented as a practical tool for axially deformed configuration-space calculations. It is shown that the HFB+THO results almost exactly reproduce those of coordinate-space HFB calculations for spherical and axially deformed nuclei. The HFB+THO procedure, as currently formulated, is fully automated, thereby facilitating the systematic investigation of large sets of nuclei.