Quartz-fiber calorimeters: have been object of an intense and fruitful
work of research and developement in the very last Sears. In this pap
er, together with the performance of tile quartz-fiber zero-degree cal
orimeter used in the NA50 experiment at CERN SPS, we also present the
design of the quartz-fiber calorimeters-for ALICE, the dedicated heavy
-ion experiment at LHC.