Rutherford cable

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]

References

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

• Seidel, P. (2015). Applied Superconductivity: Handbook on Devices and Applications. Encyclopedia of Applied Physics. Wiley. p. 495. ISBN 978-3-527-41209-9. Retrieved September 5, 2017.
• Schilders, W.H.; Maten, E.J.W.; Houben, S.H.M.J. (2013). Scientific Computing in Electrical Engineering: Proceedings of the SCEE-2002 Conference held in Eindhoven. Mathematics in Industry. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 174. ISBN 978-3-642-55872-6. Retrieved September 5, 2017.
• Koshizuka, N.; Tajima, S. (2013). Advances in Superconductivity XI: Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Superconductivity (ISS '98), November 16–19, 1998, Fukuoka. Springer Japan. p. 1380. ISBN 978-4-431-66874-9. Retrieved September 5, 2017.

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