With the conclusion of Run 2, ALICE has entered a new phase, during which a major upgrade of its detector, data-taking and data-processing systems will be implemented.

Run 2, which started in 2015, has come to an end. During the last month of operation, the LHC delivered Pb-Pb collisions at 5.02 TeV of energy per nucleon pair, allowing ALICE to collect 0.9 nb-1of integrated luminosity with lead ions.