33 research outputs found
Account Book, Lobster Fishermen, 1911-1917
Account book records lobster, cod, mackerel, haddock, herring and other fish catch and sales, as well as purchases of supplies for individual Lobster fishermen of Monhegan Island, including Maynard Brackett, C.B. Amerman, Dick Stanley and Scott Warren among others. Also includes some description of fishing grounds around the island, trawling, trap setting and hand lining. Middle of the book contains several pages of miscellaneous aphorisms
The DIRC Particle Identification System for the BABAR Experiment
A new type of ring-imaging Cherenkov detector is being used for hadronic particle identification in the BABAR experiment at the SLAC B Factory (PEP-II). This detector is called DIRC, an acronym for Detection of Internally Reflected Cherenkov (Light). This paper will discuss the construction, operation and performance of the BABAR DIRC in detail