5th Slow Extraction Workshop at MedAustron in Wiener Neustadt

The GSI facility for research with heavy ions provides experiments with slow
extracted beams from the synchrotron SIS18 since the early 1990s. Presently, the
new FAIR facility is under construction next to the GSI site. FAIR will allow
experiments to continue and extend their heavy ion research programs by
providing beams of higher energies and higher intensities with slow extraction
from the new synchrotron SIS100. In this contribution, we give an overview of
the experiments utilizing slow extraction at GSI and FAIR and their requirements
on beam parameters and quality. Also, we introduce the synchrotrons SIS18 and
SIS100 with respect to their capabilities for slow extraction.