Measurement of inclusive production of light meson resonances in hadronic decays of the Z0

A study of inclusive production of the mesonresonances View the MathMLsource in hadronicdecays of the Z0 is presented. The measured mean mesonmultiplicity per hadronicevent is 0.83 ± 0.14 for the ρ0 0.64 ± 0.24 for the K∗0 (892), 0.10 ± 0.04 for the View the MathMLsource in the momentum range p > 0.05pbeam (xp > 0.05) and 0.11 ± 0.05 for the View the MathMLsource. These values and the corresponding differential cross sections View the MathMLsource for the vector mesonsare in good agreement with the predictions of the JETSET 7.3 PS and HERWIG 5.4 models. The View the MathMLsource production is overestimated by HERWIG but its xp-shape is correctly reproduced. The measured ratios of the production cross sections View the MathMLsource and View the MathMLsource for xp > 0.1 are consistent with the results obtained in hadronicreactions.