%0 Journal Article %T Resonant continuum in the Hartree-Fock+BCS approximation %A N. Sandulescu %A Nguyen Van Giai %A R. J. Liotta %J Physics %D 1998 %I arXiv %R 10.1103/PhysRevC.61.061301 %X A method for incorporating the effect of the resonant continuum into Hartree-Fock+BCS equations is proposed. The method is applied for the case of a neutron-rich nucleus calculated with a Skyrme-type force plus a zero-range pairing interaction and the results are compared with Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov calculations. It is shown that the widths of resonant states have an important effect on the pairing properties of nuclei close to the drip line. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-th/9811037v2