Inside a particle accelerator

These pictures have been taken at the Accelerator Test facility in Japan. They show many elements usually found in particle accelerator (the ATF is ring with a circumference of the order of 200m).
Pictures taken in December 2007.

A sextupole (yellow)

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A sextupole is used to compensate high order errors introduced by other elements (such as quadrupoles).

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