Abstract
We consider the dependence of the pion and kaon decay constants on the up, down and strange quark masses in QCD with strict isospin symmetry. The role of dynamical vector meson degrees of freedom is scrutinized in terms of an effective chiral Lagrangian for vector mesons. Applying a set of low-energy parameters as determined previously from QCD lattice data on the masses of the light vector mesons from PACS-CS, QCDSF-UKQCD and HSC we compute its implications on the pion and kaon decay constants for QCD lattice ensembles of HPQCD, CLS and ETMC. It is shown that with Gasser-Leutwyler L4 and L5 parameters fixed to the empirical decay constants an accurate reproduction of their values at unphysical quark masses as computed by HPQCD, CLS and ETMC is achieved. Results for the masses of the light vector meson, the ω−ϕ mixing angles and the quark mass ratios for the ensembles used by HPQCD, CLS and ETMC are discussed.
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