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A major fire on 5 February 2026 in the RF Gallery at GSI almost completely destroyed the installation and equipment parts of the existing facility. This fire had such serious consequences that beam operations at GSI – and consequently the First Beam Event for the new facility FAIR – could not take place. Soon after the fire, initial ideas and discussions emerged on how to enable adequate interim beam operations that would supply beams to both existing GSI experimental areas and FAIR. An overview of these possible scenarios is provided, with the first interim solutions being presented in more detail. To this end, components from GSI’s HITRAP area will be dismantled and installed in the transfer channel area. As these components are being installed in their reversed direction, the project has been named PARTIH, which is a palindrome of HITRAP.
Keywords: GSI, FAIR, fire incident, beam line and beam source conceptualizations, HITRAP/PARTIH, fiducialization, machine installation, alignment
