Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers.
As far as I understand, typical decay for $\omega$ meson is into $3\pi$, while for $\rho^0$ is into $2\pi$. In fact they are quite similar particles (same spin, parity, similar masses). Why this difference in their decay?