Storage ring
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A storage ring is a type of circular particle accelerator in which a continuous or pulsed particle beam may be kept circulating, typically for many hours. Storage of a particular particle depends upon
The 216-m-circumference storage ring dominates this image of the interior of the Australian Synchrotron facility. In the middle of the storage ring is the booster ring and linac.
Different types of magnets used in the storage ring of the Australian Synchrotron. The larger yellow one is a dipole magnet used to bend the electron beam and produce the synchrotron radiation. The green one is a sextupole magnet and the red one (behind the dipole) is a quadrupole magnet; these are used for focusing and to maintain chromaticity respectively.
Strong focusing
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In accelerator physics strong focusing or alternating-gradient focusing is the principle that, using sets of multiple electromagnets, it is possible to make a particle beam simultaneously converge in
Sextupole electromagnet as used within the storage ring of the Australian Synchrotron to focus and steer the electron beam
Quadrupole electromagnet from the storage ring of the Australian Synchrotron serves much the same purpose as the sextupole magnets.