What is a Beamline? Or as the cool kids call it Beamtime!
Let's first talk about what a Synchrotron is, unfortunately I don't have an IBM 5100 to showcase the backend of such a facility, but I encourage people to check out CERNs website (even though I've never worked there). I'm going to use materials from MAXIV instead since I'm more familiar with CERN's Swedish cousin.
I highly recommend you check out MAXIV's Website for an interactive view of what we see below.
You can generate an image here