Relationship of the 3P0 decay model to other strong decay models

Abstract

The 3P0 decay model is briefly reviewed. Possible improvements, partly motivated by the examination of a microscopic description of a quark - anti-quark pair creation, are considered. They can provide support for the one-body character of the model which, otherwise, is difficult to justify. To some extent, they point to a boost effect that most descriptions of processes involving a pair creation cannot account for.