The strong coupling constants of excited positive parity heavy mesons in light-cone QCD

We calculate the strong coupling constants gp∗∗p∗π, where P∗∗ (D∗∗, B∗∗) is the 1+ p-wave state, in the framework of the light-cone QCD sum rules, and using these values of gp∗∗p∗π, we compute the hadronic decay widths for D∗∗ → D∗π and B∗∗ → B∗π.