Roman Lietava, Birmingham

A Large Ion CERN Experiment (ALICE) assembly and installation

is close to completion. The commissioning of the detector with cosmic data is in the full swing. The next step is the first  data with LHC.  The ALICE first physics goals - both in proton-proton and ion-ion collisions will be presented. The role of UK in ALICE programme will be explained.

Slides: aliceEdinburgh0308.pdf