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0. Synchrotron > 1. Electron Gun > 2. The Linac > 3. Dipole Magnets > 4. Vacuum > 5. Undulator > 6. Beamlines
This animation shows a bunch of electrons as it travels from the linac, through the booster and into the storage ring. In reality, there are around 900 electron bunches in the storage ring at any one time, each travelling around the ring half a million times a second.
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