Light and strange quark masses with Nf = 2 + 1 Wilson fermions
Abstract
We report on the status of an update of our collaboration's previous computation of light and strange quark masses in QCD with Nf=2+1 dynamical flavours. Bare quark masses are extracted from CLS ensembles, using O(a)-improved Wilson fermions, and the mass renormalization is performed non-perturbatively in the Schr\"odinger functional scheme over a wide range of scales to make safe contact with perturbation theory. Results for five lattice spacings, down to a 0.038 fm, and pion masses reaching the physical value are included in the analysis. This allows for the exploration of different models for cutoff and chiral effects, and a controlled extrapolation to the physical point.
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