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Strong Decay Models

Attempts at modeling strong decays date from 1969, when Micu suggested that hadron decay proceeds through $q\bar q$ pair production with vacuum quantum numbers, $J^{{PC}}=0^{{++}}$. Since this corresponds to a ³P₀ $q{\bar q}$ state, it is now generally referred to as the 3p0 decay model. This suggestion was developed and applied extensively by Le Yaouanc et al. in the 1970s. Studies of hadron decays using the 3p0 model have been concerned almost exclusively with numerical predictions, and have not led to any fundamental modifications to the original model. Recent studies have considered changes in the spatial dependence of the pair production amplitude as a function of quark coordinates but the fundamental decay mechanism is usually not addressed; this is widely believed to be a nonperturbative process, involving ``flux tube breaking". There have been some studies of the decay mechanism which consider an alternative phenomenological model in which the $q{\bar q}$ pair is produced with ³S₁ quantum numbers; this possibility however appears to disagree with experiment.

• mesons
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• hybrids
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