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A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) is the dedicated heavy-ion experimentat the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In addition to its heavy-ion physicsprogram, it also has a rich proton-proton physics program benefiting from adetector with a low momentum cut-off (pT about 50 MeV/c) and a small materialbudget (about 11% of a radiation length until the outer wall of the maintracking detector, the Time-Projection Chamber). ALICE has excellent means ofparticle identification (PID) with methods ranging from specific energy lossand time of flight to transition and Cherenkov radiation. The good primary andsecondary vertex resolution allows for measurements of strangeness and heavyflavor with low backgrounds. ALICE has taken proton-proton collision data at0.9, 2.36, and 7 TeV. In this article results of the first minimum-bias andsoft-QCD measurements are presented. Inclusive pseudorapidity, multiplicity,and transverse momentum distributions are discussed as well as distributions ofidentified particles including strange particles. Further, results on two-pionBose-Einstein correlations and the antiproton-to-proton ratio in collisions atthe LHC are shown.

Minimum-Bias and Early QCD Physics in ALICE