Open charm analysis for energy loss studies with ALICE at LHC

In high energy Pb-Pb collisions at LHC a deconfined QCD medium is expected to be produced. The open charm and beauty mesons are a powerful probe to investigate the medium properties and its effects on particle production since they experience all the deconfined phase. The ALICE experiment is well suited to perform open charm analysis thanks to the excellent tracking system, its high resolution secondary vertex reconstruction capabilities and particle identification performance. In this proceeding the status of the analysis of p-p collisions at √S = 7 TeV and the perspectives for Pb-Pb measurements will be presented. (author)