Rutherford cable


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 [Appleton Laboratory|Rutherford Laboratory] at Harwell Campus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harwell_Science_and_Innovation_Campus]where the cable design was developed.