Heavy-Ion collisions at the LHC

An important part of the experimental programme at the Large Hadron Collider to be built at CERN will be devoted to the study of the phase transition to quark- gluon plasma in heavy-ion collisions. One detector, ALICE is devoted to the measurement of most observablescharacterizing the system formed in the collisions whilst the two p-p experiments, ATLAS and CMS, have capabilities to measure specific signals.