ALICE Detector Status and Commissioning
Hans-Ake Gustafsson
TL;DR
This paper reviews the current status of the ALICE detector at the LHC, focusing on its commissioning and the unique heavy ion physics opportunities it will explore at high energies.
Contribution
It provides an update on ALICE's construction progress and discusses the physics potential for heavy ion collisions at the LHC.
Findings
ALICE is nearing completion and ready for operation.
The experiment will explore novel heavy ion physics at unprecedented energies.
Preparations are underway for detailed physics studies at the LHC.
Abstract
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will start operation in the end of 2007 colliding proton and lead beams at \surd S = 14 TeV and \surd S_{NN} = 5.5 TeV, respectively. The accelerator and the experiments are under construction and detailed studies of the physics program are being prepared. I will in this paper review the current status of the ALICE experiment and the heavy ion physics aspects that are unique at LHC.
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Taxonomy
TopicsParticle physics theoretical and experimental studies · High-Energy Particle Collisions Research · Particle Detector Development and Performance