Metallicities for double-mode RR Lyrae stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Metallicities for six double-mode RR Lyrae stars (RRd's) in the Large Magel lanic Cloud have been estimated using the DeltaS method. The derived [Fe/H] values are in the range [Fe/H] =-1.09 to -1.78 (or -0.95 to -1.58, adoptin g a different calibration of [Fe/H] versus DeltaS). Two stars in our sample are at the very metal-rich limit of all RRd's for which metal abundance ha s been estimated, either by direct measure (for field objects) or on the ba sis of the hosting system (for objects in globular clusters or external gal axies). These metal abundances, coupled with mass determinations from pulsa tional models and the Petersen diagram, are used to compare the mass-metall icity distribution of field and cluster RR Lyrae variables. We find that fi eld and cluster RRd's seem to follow the same mass-metallicity distribution , within the observational errors, strengthening the case for uniformity of properties between field and cluster variables. At odds to what is usually assumed, we find no significant difference in mass for RR Lyrae variables in globular clusters of different metallicity and Oosterhoff types, or ther e may even be a difference contrary to the commonly accepted one, depending on the metallicity scale adopted to derive the masses. This "unusual" resu lt for the mass-metallicity relation is probably due, at least in part, to the inclusion of updated opacity tables in the computation of metal-depende nt pulsation models.