The story of ALICE: Building the dedicated heavy ion detector at LHC
arXiv:1101.1257
Abstract
This article documents the main design choices and the close to 20 years of preparation, detector R&D, construction and installation of ALICE, the dedicated heavy ion experiment at the CERN LHC accelerator.
This article has been prepared for the experiment chapter of the book 'The Large Hadron Collider: A marvel technology', EPFL-Press Lausanne, Switzerland, 2009 (Editor: L. Evans)