  We study the phenomenology of two nonets of excited vector mesons,
$\{\rho(1450)$, $K^{\ast}(1410)$, $\omega(1420)$, $\phi(1680)\}$ and
$\{\rho(1700),$ $K^{\ast}(1680),\omega(1650),$ $\phi(???)\},$ which (roughly)
correspond to radially excited $2^{3}S_{1}$ and to orbitally excited
$1^{3}D_{1}$ vector mesons. We evaluate the strong and radiative decays of
these mesons into pseudoscalar and ground-state vector mesons by using an
effective relativistic QFT model based on flavour symmetry. We compare decay
widths and branching ratios with various experimental results listed in the
PDG. An overall agreement of theory with experiment reinforces the standard
quark-antiquark assignment of the resonances mentioned above. Predictions for
not yet measured quantities are also made. In particular, we shall also make
predictions for the not-yet discovered $s\bar{s}$ state of the $1^{3}D_{1}$
nonet, denoted as $\phi(???)$. Its mass can be estimated to be about $1930$
MeV, hence we shall call this putative state $\phi(1930).$ Its main decays are
into $KK^{\ast}(892)$ (about $200$ MeV) and $KK$ (about $100$ MeV). Since this
state couples also to $\gamma\eta,$ it can be searched in the near future in
the photoproduction-based experiments GlueX and CLAS12 at Jefferson Lab.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology