DIRC, the Particle Identification System for BABAR
  The DIRC, a novel type of Cherenkov ring imaging device, is the primary hadronic particle identification system for the BABAR detector at the asymmetric B-factory, PEP-II at SLAC. BABAR began taking data with colliding beams mode in late spring 1999. This paper describes the performance of the DIRC during the first 16 months of operation. 
Jochen Schwiening, representing the BABAR-DIRC Collaboration