Relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov Description of the Deformed Ground-State Proton Emitters

Ground-state properties of deformed proton-rich odd- $Z$ nuclei in the region $59\le Z\le 69$ are described in the framework of relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov (RHB) theory. One-proton separation energies and ground-state quadrupole deformations that result from fully self-consistent microscopic calculations are compared with available experimental data. The model predicts the location of the proton drip-line, the properties of proton emitters beyond the drip-line, and provides information about the deformed single-particle orbitals occupied by the odd valence proton.