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    journal = "INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS A",
    year = "2014",
    volume = "29",
    number = "24",
    publisher = "WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD",
    issn = "0217-751X",
    doi = "10.1142/S0217751X14300440",
    keywords = "LHC; ALICE; heavy-ion collisions; particle detectors",
    abstract = "ALICE is the heavy-ion experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The
experiment continuously took data during the first physics campaign of
the machine from fall 2009 until early 2013, using proton and lead-ion
beams. In this paper we describe the running environment and the data
handling procedures, and discuss the performance of the ALICE detectors
and analysis methods for various physics observables."
}