# Circular Accelerators: The Synchrotron

- ## Idea: Reuse same accelerating structure (RF type --- similar to LINAC) to save space and money

- ## Circular array of bending magnets (causes particles to circulate again and again and obtain energy boosts during each orbit)

- ## Magnetic field of magnets increases as particle energy increases in order to maintain constant radius of motion

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