Testing gauge-Yukawa-unified models by Mt Original Research Article

Gauge-Yukawa Unification (GYU) relates the gauge and Yukawa couplings, thereby going beyond the usual GUTs, and it is assumed that the GYU in the third fermion generation implies that its Yukawa couplings are of the same order as the unified gauge coupling at the GUT scale. We re-examine carefully the recent observation that the top-bottom mass hierarchy can be explained to a certain extent in supersymmetric GYU models. It is found that there are equiv-top-mass lines in the boundary conditions of the Yukawa couplings so that two different GYU models on the same line can not be distinguished by the top mass Mt alone. If they are on different lines, they could be distinguished by Mt in principle, provided that the predicted Mtʹs are well below the infrared value Mt(IR). We find that the ratio Mt(IR)/sin β depends on tan β for large tan β and the lowest value of Mt(IR) is ∼ 188 GeV. We focus our attention on the existing SU(5) GYU models, which are obtained by requiring finiteness and reduction of couplings. They, respectively, predict Mt = (183 + σMSSMMt ± 5) GeV and (181 + σMSSMMt ± 3) GeV, where σMSSMMt stands for the MSSM threshold correction and is ∼ −2 GeV for the case that all the MSSM superpartners have the same mass MSUSY with μH/MSUSY ⪡ 1.