TESTING GAUGE-YUKAWA-UNIFIED MODELS BY M(T)

Gauge-Yukawa Unification (GYU) relates the gauge and Yukawa couplings, thereby going beyond the usual GUTs, and it is assumed that the GYU i n the third fermion generation implies that its Yukawa couplings are o f the same order as the unified gauge coupling at the GUT scale. We re -examine carefully the recent observation that the top-bottom mass hie rarchy can be explained to a certain extent in supersymmetric GYU mode ls. It is found that there are equiv-top-mass lines in the boundary co nditions of the Yukawa couplings so that two different GYU models on t he same line can not be distinguished by the top mass M(t) alone. If t hey are on different lines, they could be distinguished by M(t) in pri nciple, provided that the predicted M(t)'s are well below the infrared value M(t)(IR). We find that the ratio M(t)(IR)/sin beta depends on t an beta for large tan beta and the lowest value of M(t)(IR) is similar to 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 M(t) = (183 + delta(MSSM)M(t) +/- 5) GeV and (181 + delta(MSSM)M(t) +/- 3) GeV, where delta(t)(MSSM) stands for the MSSM threshold correction and is similar to -2 GeV for the case t hat all the MSSM superpartners have the same mass M(SUSY) With mu(H)/M (SUSY) much less than 1.