Compact, reliable and little consuming accelerators are required for the treatment of tumours with ions. TERA proposes the "cyclinac", composed of a high-frequency, fast-cycling linac which boosts the energy of the particles previously accelerated in a cyclotron. The dimensions of the linac can be reduced if high gradients are used. TERA initiated a high-gradient test program to understand the operational limit of such structures. The program foresees the design, prototyping and high-power test of several high-gradient structures operating at 3 and 5.7 GHz. The high-power tests of the 3 GHz single-cell cavity were completed in Winter 2012. The maximum BDR threshold measured for Emax of 170 MV/m and RF pulses of 2.5 \mu s was 3 x 10-6 bpp/m.
@article{arxiv.1206.1930,
title = {High-power test results of a 3 GHz single-cell cavity},
author = {U. Amaldi and D. Bergesio and R. Bonomi and A. Degiovanni and M. Garlasché and P. Magagnin and S. Verdú-Andrés and R. Wegner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.1930},
year = {2012}
}