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Near the critical photon energy, the characteristic vertical divergence of synchrotron radiation is in the approximation requested. Ignoring electron source size and divergence, the rms vertical width downstream is
The full aperture width is , so its half-width is . It therefore passes almost all the central photon beam. A Gaussian angular approximation would give
The exact synchrotron angular distribution is not Gaussian, so this number is an illustrative containment estimate, not an exact throughput calculation. A finite aperture cannot transmit every photon in a distribution with tails. The assumed infinite horizontal aperture removes horizontal fan clipping.

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