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Type of superconducting electrical 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
- 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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