HORIZONTAL SYMMETRY FOR QUARK AND SQUARK MASSES IN SUPERSYMMETRIC SU(5)

Recent interest in horizontal symmetry model building has been driven mainly by the large top mass and hence strong hierarchy in quark masse s, and the possibility of appropriately constrained soft squark mass m atrices, in place of an assumed universality condition, for satisfying the relevant flavor changing neutral current constraints. Here we pre sent the first successful supersymmetric SU(5) model that has such a f eature. The horizontal symmetry is a gauged [Q(12) x U(1)](H) (subset of [SU(2) x U(1)](H)). All nonrenormalizable terms compatible with the symmetry are allowed in the mass matrix constructions. Charged lepton masses can also be accommodated.