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Markers


label: MARKER,TYPE=string,APERTURE=vector;
The simplest element which can occur in a beam line is the MARKER. It has no effect on the beam, but it allows one to identify a position in the beam line, for example to apply a matching constraint. A marker has no attributes:

Example:


M27:MARKER;



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