PT Journal AU BABAR Collaboration (Aubert, Bea Azzolini, V Lopez-March, N Martinez-Vidal, F Milanes, DA Oyanguren, A TI The BABAR detector: Upgrades, operation and performance SO Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research A JI Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A PY 2013 BP 615 EP 701 VL 729 DI 10.1016/j.nima.2013.05.107 LA English DE General-purpose detector for colliding beams; Operational experience; High-luminosity storage ring operation; Ream monitoring AB The BABAR detector operated successfully at the PEP-Il asymmetric e(+) e(-) collider at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory from 1999 to 2008. This report covers upgrades, operation, and performance of the collider and the detector systems, as well as the trigger, online and offline computing, and aspects of event reconstruction since the beginning of data taking. ER