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The Beijing Spallation Neutron Source (BSNS) is a newly approved high power accelerator project based on a H- linear accelerator and a rapid cycling synchrotron. During the past year, several major revisions were made to the design including the type of the front end, linac frequency, transport layout, ring lattice, and type of ring components. Possible upgrade paths were also laid out: based on an extension of the warm linac, the ring injection energy and the beam current could be raised doubling the beam power on target to reach 200 kW; an extension with a superconducting RF linac of similar length could raise the beam power near 0.5 MW. Based on these considerations, research and development activities are started. In this paper, we discuss the rationale of design revisions and summarize the recent work.
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