Mass spectra and decay properties of D_s Meson in a relativistic Dirac formalism

The mass spectra of $D_s$ meson is obtained in the framework of relativistic independent quark model using Martin like potential for the quark confinement. The predicted excited states are in good agreement with the experimental results as well as with the lattice and other theoretical predictions. The spectroscopic parameters are employed further to compute the decay constant, electromagnetic transition and leptonic decay widths. The present result for its decay constant, $f_P$ (252.82 MeV) is in excellent agreement with the value 252.6 $\pm$ 11.1 MeV reported by CLEO-c and the predicted branching ratios for $(D_s \rightarrow \tau \bar{\nu}_\tau, \mu \bar{\nu}_\mu)$ ($5.706 \times 10^{-2}, 5.812 \times 10^{-3}$) are in close agreement with the PDG values ($ (5.43 \pm 0.31)\times 10^{-2}, (5.90 \pm 0.33)\times 10^{-3} $) respectively.