OZI rule
OZI rule - the rule that strong disruptions of mesons associated with discrete quark lines are suppressed. It was formulated for the first time by Susumu Okubo, George Zweig and Jugoro Izukha in the 1960s.
It is related to the fact that the current coupling constant (the force that, although it is called the constant, depends on the energy) of the strong forces decreases for high energies.
This rule makes lightweight chantonium and bottomonium (lighter than two mesons D and two mesons B respectively) relatively durable, as they can break down only in this way. It also causes that the meson φ decays into a pair of kaons rather than three, even though the second decay corresponds to a greater mass difference and is preferred for the phase space factor.
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