Dipole magnet

Thus, a particle injected into a dipole magnet will travel on a circular or helical trajectory.

By adding several dipole sections on the same plane, the bending radial effect of the beam increases.

The amount of force that can be applied to a charged particle by a dipole magnet is one of the limiting factors for modern synchrotron and cyclotron proton and ion accelerators.

In the largest modern synchrotron, the Large Hadron Collider, there are 1232 main dipole magnets used for bending the path of the particle beam, each weighing 35 metric tons.

Such magnets are also used in traditional televisions, which contain a cathode-ray tube, which is essentially a small particle accelerator.