A static calculation of radiative decay widths of mesons in a potential model of independent quarks

Taking a relativistic potential model of independent quarks with its parame ters determined from a fit to the mass splittings of ground state mesons in the strange, charm and bottom flavor sector, we perform a 'static' calcula tion of decay widths for the radiative transitions of mesons within the con ventional picture of photon emission by a confined quark and/or antiquark. The results obtained in most of the cases of light mesons are in an overall agreement with the experimental values. The predictions in heavy meson dec ays are comparable to those of other model calculations. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.