Intense and purified radioactive beam of post-accelerated 14O was used
to study the low-lying states in the unbound 15F nucleus. Exploiting
resonant elastic scattering in inverse kinematics with a thick target, the
second excited state, a resonance at E_R=4.757(6)(10)~MeV with a width of
Γ=36(5)(14)~keV was measured for the first time with high precision. The
structure of this narrow above-barrier state in a nucleus located two neutrons
beyond the proton drip line was investigated using the Gamow Shell Model in the
coupled channel representation with a 12C core and three valence protons.
It is found that it is an almost pure wave function of two quasi-bound protons
in the 2s_1/2 shell.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, Submitted to Phys. Lett.