Heavy Ion Physics with ALICE

Abstract

ALICE will study the physics of the strongly interacting matter produced in nucleus-nucleus collisions at the LHC where the formation of the Quark Gluon Plasma is expected. The experimental setup, the capabilities of the detector, and a few selected heavy-ion topics are presented and discussed.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures. Contribution to "XLVII International Winter Meeting on Nuclear Physics, Bormio (Italy), Jan. 26-30, 2009