Strong Decays of Excited Vector Mesons

Abstract

We study two nonets of excited vector mesons, predominantly corresponding to radially excited vector mesons with quantum numbers n 2S+1 L J = 2 3 S 1 and to orbitally excited vector mesons with quantum numbers n 2S+1 L J = 1 3 D 1 . We evaluate two types of decays of these mesons: into two pseudoscalar mesons and into a pseudoscalar and a ground-state vector meson. We compare the results with experimental data taken from PDG. We also make predictions for the strange-antistrange state in the 1 3 D 1 nonet denoted as φ(1930), which has not yet been discovered.