Light mass galileon and late time acceleration of the Universe

We study Galileon scalar field model by considering the lowest order Galileon term in the lagrangian, $(\partial_{\mu} \phi)^2 \Box\phi$ by invoking a field potential. We use Statefinder hierarchy to distinguish the light mass galileon models with different potentials amongst themselves and from the $\Lambda$CDM behaviour. The $Om$ diagnostic is applied to cosmological dynamics and observational constraints on the model parameters are studied using SN+Hubble+BAO data.