Rutherford cable explained

A Rutherford cable is a way of forming a superconducting electrical cable, often used to generate magnetic fields in particle accelerators.[1] The superconducting strands are arranged as a many-stranded helix that has been flattened into a rectangular cable. It can typically only be applied to flexible superconductors that can be drawn into wire such as the niobium-based superconductors used in the Large Hadron Collider. The cable is named after the Rutherford Laboratory where the cable design was developed.[2]

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  1. Book: New Scientist . Reed Business Information . September 5, 2017 . 242. 1981-10-22 .
  2. Book: Hoddeson, L. . Kolb . A.W. . Westfall . C. . Fermilab: Physics, the Frontier, and Megascience . University of Chicago Press . 2009 . 978-0-226-34625-0 . September 5, 2017 . 203.