A Rutherford cable is a way of forming a superconducting electrical cable, often used to generate magnetic fields in particle accelerators. 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 at Harwell Campus where the cable design was developed.
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External links F. Sonneman (2001-05-30). "Multi-strand Cable". cern.ch. Archived from the original on 2009-11-19.