First Year of the BABAR Experiment Data Taking
arXiv:hep-ex/0010076
Abstract
The BABAR experiment at the PEP-II asymmetric B factory observed its first hadronic events on the 26th of May 1999. We present the progress made so far on the data taking, the BABAR detector performances and the physics analyses.
11 pages, 9 postscript figures, contribution to the Proceedings of XXth Physics in Collision, Lisbon, Portugal