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Mass hierarchies from two extra dimensions B. F. Riley AMEC NNC Limited, 601 Faraday Street, Birchwood Park, Warrington WA3 6GN, UK bernard.riley@ Abstract: The string, MSSM GUT, weak and QCD scales, and the Rydberg constant, correspond to the positions of AdS domain wall intersections in a two-dimensional extra space of infinite extent. The domain walls lie along and parallel to the sides of cells which tile the extra space. The cells are four-sided with parallel opposite sides of lengths Rln(π/2) and Rlnπ, where R is the AdS radius of curvature. Particle masses correspond to the positions of domain walls. We represent the extra space graphically. 1 Introduction In the Randall and Sundrum RS I model [1], an extra spatial dimension is compactified on an S1/Z2 orbifold and the Standard Model particles and forces are confined to a negative-tension 3-brane, the ‘visible’ brane, separated from a positive-tension 3-brane, the Planck or ‘hidden’ brane, by a slice of five-dimensional Anti-de Sitter spacetime (AdS5) of geometry ,ddded 222 yxxs yk += ? νμμνη (1) where ημν is the Minkowski metric of four-dimensional spacetime, k is the AdS curvature and y is the coordinate of the extra dimension. The exponential factor is the source of the hierarchy between the Planck and weak scales; it results from the small overlap in the fifth dimension of the graviton wave function with our ‘visible’ 3-brane. In the RS II model [2], the negative tension brane is moved off to infinity; the visible brane is at y = 0. Lykken and Randall have combined the results of RS I and II to address the hierarchy problem in an infinite extra dimension with positive tension branes only [3]. Gravity is localized on the Planck brane and we live on a separate brane in the fifth dimension, upon which mass scales are exponentially suppressed. Oda has shown that gravity can be trapped on multiple D3- branes, with positive tension, situated at intervals along the extra dimension [4, 5]. 2On the basis of the Ad