Study of scalar mesons and related radiative decays

After a brief review of the puzzling light scalar meson sector of QCD, a brief summary will be given of a paper concerning radiative decays involving the light scalars. There, a simple vector meson dominance model is constructed in an initial attempt to relate a large number of the radiative decays involving a putative scalar nonet to each other. As an application it is illustrated why a(0)(980) - f(0)(980) mixing is not expected to greatly alter the f(0)/a(0) production ratio for radiative phi decays.