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. ^ 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.

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