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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…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Jochen Schwiening , representing the BABAR-DIRC Collaboration

The DIRC, a new type of Cherenkov imaging device, has been selected as the primary particle identification system for the BABAR detector at the asymmetric B-factory, PEP-II. It is based on total internal reflection and uses long,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-25 Jochen Schwiening

The DIRC is a new type of Cherenkov imaging device that will be used for the first time in the BABAR detector at the asymmetric B-factory, PEP-II. It is based on total internal reflection and uses long, rectangular bars made from synthetic…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-25 DIRC Collaboration

The DIRC is a Cherenkov imaging detector based on total internal reflection for the BaBar detector at PEP-II. The principles of the DIRC ring imaging Cherenkov technique are explained and its choice for the BaBar detector particle…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-10-30 J. Schwiening

The DIRC is a new type of Cherenkov detector that is successfully operating as the hadronic particle identification system for the BABAR experiment at SLAC. The fused silica bars that serve as the DIRC's Cherenkov radiators must transmit…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-25 M. Convery , B. Ratcliff , X. Sarazin , J. Schwiening , J. Va'vra

The DIRC technology (Detection of Internally Reflected Cherenkov light) offers an excellent possibility to minimize the form factor of Cherenkov detectors in hermetic high energy detectors. The PANDA experiment at FAIR in Germany will…

The DIRC (Detection of Internally Reflected Cerenkov light) is a new type of ring imaging Cerenkov detector, which detects images from Cerenkov light produced in precisely machined quartz bars. The Cerenkov images are transported along…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Lu , D. Marlow , C. Mindas , E. Prebys

We present the final results from a novel Cherenkov imaging detector called the Focusing DIRC (FDIRC). This detector was designed as a full-scale prototype of the particle identification system for the SuperB experiment [1], and comprises…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-09 B. Dey , M. Borsato , N. Arnaud , D. W. G. S. Leith , K. Nishimura , D. A. Roberts , B. N. Ratcliff , G. Varner , J. Va'vra

Imaging Cherenkov detectors form the backbone of particle identification (PID) at the future Electron Ion Collider (EIC). Currently all the designs for the first EIC detector proposal use a dual Ring Imaging CHerenkov (dRICH) detector in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-04-20 C. Fanelli , A. Mahmood

The innovative Barrel DIRC (Detection of Internally Reflected Cherenkov light) counter will provide hadronic particle identification (PID) in the central region of the PANDA experiment at the new Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research…

The PANDA experiment at the international accelerator Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe (FAIR), Darmstadt, Germany, will address fundamental questions of hadron physics using $\bar{p}p$ annihilations. Excellent Particle…

The PANDA detector at the international accelerator Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe (FAIR) addresses fundamental questions of hadron physics. An excellent hadronic particle identification (PID) will be accomplished by two…

FastDIRC is a novel fast Monte Carlo and reconstruction algorithm for DIRC detectors. A DIRC employs rectangular fused-silica bars both as Cherenkov radiators and as light guides. Cherenkov-photon imaging and time-of-propagation information…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-11-03 John Hardin , Mike Williams

The PANDA experiment at the future Facility for Antiproton and Ion Reasearch (FAIR) will address fundamental questions of hadron physics with unprecedented precision. To reach this goal excellent Particle Identification (PID) is essential…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-01-15 J. Schwiening

Cerenkov technology is often the optimal choice for particle identification in high energy particle collision applications. Typically, the most challenging regime is at high pseudorapidity (forward) where particle identification must…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-06-28 M. Blatnik , K. Dehmelt , A. Deshpande , D. Dixit , N. Feege , T. K. Hemmick , B. Lewis , M. L. Purschke , W. Roh , F. Torales-Acosta , T. Videbaek , S. Zajac

Imaging Cherenkov detectors are crucial for particle identification (PID) in nuclear and particle physics experiments. Fast reconstruction algorithms are essential for near real-time alignment, calibration, data quality control, and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-07-11 Cristiano Fanelli , James Giroux , Justin Stevens

The integration of Deep Learning (DL) into experimental nuclear and particle physics has driven significant progress in simulation and reconstruction workflows. However, traditional simulation frameworks such as Geant4 remain…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-04-29 James Giroux , Michael Martinez , Cristiano Fanelli

The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) will be the next frontier project of nuclear physics in the United States. It is planned to be built in the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in close collaboration with Jefferson Lab. One of the key…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-02-15 Greg Kalicy

The dual-radiator Imaging Cherenkov detector (dRICH) is a key component of the forward particle identification system for the ePIC experiment at the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). This study evaluates the dRICH performance using Geant4…

The GlueX experiment at Jefferson Laboratory aims to perform quantitative tests of non-perturbative QCD by studying the spectrum of light-quark mesons and baryons. A Detector of Internally Reflected Cherenkov light (DIRC) was installed to…

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