  A central component of the ALICE Upgrade will be a completely new Inner
Tracking System (ITS). The performance of the new ITS will be a significant
improvement over that of the present ITS, in particular in the areas of
material budget, granularity, a reduced radial distance from the first layer to
the beam and rate capability. This will enable many key measurements of the
properties of the quark-gluon plasma to be performed, in particular with rare
probes such as low momentum charm and beauty mesons and baryons.
