On 1 March 1993, ALICE collaboration submitted a letter of intent to the CERN LHC Committee, proposing the construction of a heavy-ion experiment dedicated to the study of the physics of strongly interacting matter produced in nucleus-nucleus collisions. The letter of intent was the first official document in which the ALICE acronym for “A Large Ion Collider Experiment” was used.

ALICE Timeline
 

1 March 2023, ALICE celebrated its 30^th anniversary with a cake cutting Ceremony during the ongoing ALICE week Collaboration meeting. 

• Letter of Intent for A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE)