Stability and protection of CICCs: an updated designer's view

This paper gives un update on stability and protection of CICCs, with the main focus on simple analytical formulae to be used for cable design purposes. The status of the present understanding is reviewed, collecting the main results as far as possible into a consistent notation. Various additional aspects of present interest are briefly discussed, such as special cable configurations (hybrid cables, cables with additional cooling channels) and operation in superfluid helium. Some considerations on cable current distributions, and its effect on cable stability, are given. (C) 1998 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.