We have evaluated the mesonic decay of the He-5(LAMBDA) hypernucleus b
y using a LAMBDA wave function generated from the quark cluster model.
As a consequence of the LAMBDA N repulsion at short distances we obta
in a LAMBDA wave function in the nucleus with a large radius. The smal
ler overlap with the He-4 core with respect to simpler wave functions
and the effect of the pion renormalization increase the mesonic width
considerably and one obtains a good reproduction of the experimental d
ata.