2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/120263The Talmi-Moshinsky transformation is applied to the strong decay and production of mesons. Amplitudes for conventional mesons are obtained in a simple way and are generalised to encompass the production and decay of hybrid states. The selection rule disfavouring hybrid decay into pairs of identical S-wave mesons has a natural explanation and a new class of selection rules is uncovered with implications for production of the exotic $1^{-+}$ hybrid in $e^+e^-$ experiments, charmonia decays and the lattice.15 pages; some significant changes in revised version including additional phenomenologyHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenologytext