  The Large Hadron Collider at CERN will open a new energy domain for heavy-ion
physics. Besides ALICE, the dedicated heavy-ion experiment, also ATLAS and CMS
are preparing rich physics programs with nucleus-nucleus collisions. Here we
focus on open heavy-flavour and quarkonia studies, among the fields that will
most benefit from the high centre-of-mass energy at the LHC. We discuss a few
examples of physics issues that can be addressed and we present a selection and
comparison (where possible) of results on the expected capability of the three
experiments.
