Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 162, 205-211 (2008)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2008-00795-6

The ALICE experiment at the LHC

¹ Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Blaise Pascal, 24 Av. des Landais, 63177 Aubière, France

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Abstract

After a general introduction on the Quark Gluon Plasma and a short overview of the experimental results obtained so far with heavy-ion collisions at the SPS and at the RHIC, the physics goals of the ALICE experiment at the LHC are presented.