TY - CONF AU - Schukraft, Jurgen TI - Status and initial operation of ALICE IS - arXiv:1012.4348 CY - Hamburg PB - Verlag Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron M1 - PUBDB-2016-01408 M1 - arXiv:1012.4348 M1 - DESY-PROC-2010-01 SP - 6 PY - 2010 AB - After close to 20 years of preparation, the dedicated heavy ion experiment ALICE took first data with proton collisions at the LHC at the end of 2009. This article recalls the main design choices made for the detector and summarizes initial operation and performance of ALICE at the LHC/ first physics results are covered elsewhere in these proceedings. T2 - Physics at the LHC 2010 CY - 7 Jun 2010 - 12 Jun 2010, Hamburg (Germany) Y2 - 7 Jun 2010 - 12 Jun 2010 M2 - Hamburg, Germany KW - CERN LHC Coll (INSPIRE) KW - ALICE (INSPIRE) KW - performance (INSPIRE) LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)8 ; PUB:(DE-HGF)15 DO - DOI:10.3204/DESY-PROC-2010-01/7 UR - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/296372 ER -