Microscopic Model of Charmonium Strong Decays

Abstract

Although the spectra of heavy quarkonium systems has been successfully explained by certain QCD motivated potential models, their strong decays are difficult to deal with. We perform a microscopic calculation of charmonium strong decays using the same constituent quark model which successfully describes the $c\bar{c}$ meson spectrum. We compare the numerical results with the ${}^3{P}_0$ and the experimental data. Comparison with other predictions from similar models are included.

Contribution to the proceedings of the XIV International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy (HADRON 2011); 13-17 June 2011, Munich, Germany