prof. D. Ebert, Humboldt-Universitaet, Berlin, Germany

Strong decays of vector mesons to pseudoscalar mesons in the relativistic quark model

Strong decays of vector mesons to pseudoscalar mesons are considered in the framework of the microscopic decay mechanism and the relativistic quark model based on the quasipotential approach. The quark-aniquark potential is employed as the source of the q-qbar pair creation. The calculated rates of strong decays of light and heavy-light mesons and heavy quarkonia agree well with available experimental data.