Vector meson dominance model for radiative decays involving light scalar mesons

We present a vector dominance model to describe radiative decays involving the light scalar mesons. Assuming that the light scalar mesons form a nonet this model gives relations among various decay amplitudes of the form S → γγ, V → Sγ and S → Vγ, where S and V denote scalar and vector mesons. By comparing with experimental radiative decay rates, including those recently measured for φ → PP(prime)γ, we obtain a fairly large number of predictions. We discuss briefly ongoing extensions of the present work in an attempt to describe the radiative φ decay measurements in detail