**6.4 Concluding remarks - ALICE**

In general, similar to the overall characteristics of the WLCG performance also the ALICE operations and data handling campaigns were notably successful right from the beginning of the LHC startup, making the Grid infrastructure operational and supporting a fast delivery of Physics results. By September 2011, ALICE has published 15 scientific papers with the results from the LHC collisions and more is on the way. Two papers [67,68] were marked as "Suggested reading" by the Physical Review Letters editors and the later was also selected for the "Viewpoint in Physics" by Physical Review Letters.

The full list of the ALICE papers published during 2009-2011 can be found on [69]. One of the Pb-Pb collision events recorded by ALICE is shown on Figure 25.

Fig. 25. Pb-Pb collision event recorded by ALICE
