Commissioning and Prospects for Early Physics with ALICE

Abstract

The ALICE detector has been commissioned and is ready for taking data at the Large Hadron Collider. The first proton-proton collisions are expected in 2009. This contribution describes the current status of the detector, the results of the commissioning phase and its capabilities to contribute to the understanding of both pp and PbPb collisions

8 pages, 7 figures, To appear in the proceedings for Quark Matter 2009, March 30 - April 4, Knoxville, Tennessee

References in corpus (4)

• The Transition Radiation Detector for ALICE at LHC
• Commissioning and Calibration of the ALICE TPC
• Results from cosmics and first LHC beam with the ALICE HMPID detector
• Photon Physics in ALICE

Cited by in corpus (2)

• First proton-proton collisions at the LHC as observed with the ALICE detector: measurement of the charged particle pseudorapidity density at $\sqrt{s}$ = 900 GeV
• Midrapidity antiproton-to-proton ratio in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=0.9$ and $7$ TeV measured by the ALICE experiment