On the mechanism of open-flavor strong decays
On the mechanism of open-flavor strong decays
Open-flavor strong decays are mediated by $q\overline{q}$ pair production, which is known to occur dominantly with $^{3}P_{0}$ quantum numbers. The relation of the phenomenological $^{3}P_{0}$ model of these decays to "microscopic" QCD decay mechanisms has never been established clearly. In this paper we investigate $q\overline{q}$ meson decay amplitudes assuming pair …