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PV: Plenarvorträge

PV 5: PV V

PV 5.1: Plenary Talk

Wednesday, March 23, 2011, 11:00–11:45, HS1+HS2

ALICE in Wonderland: first results from the ALICE experiment at the LHC — •Peter Braun-Munzinger — EMMI, GSI

Since November 2009 the ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC has taken data, first with proton-proton collisions at 0.9 and 7 TeV center-of-mass energy, then in November 2010 with Pb--Pb collisions at 574 TeV. More than 700 million events were recorded with pp collisions, more than 20 million events with Pb--Pb collisions. We will briefly describe the performance of the detector and report on new physics results with emphasis on new insights into the physics of the quark-gluon plasma at LHC energy.