Open charm and beauty production in hadron reactions

Abstract

The production of charmed and beauty hadrons in proton-proton and proton-antiproton collisions at high energies is analyzed within the modified quark-gluon string model (QGSM) including the internal motion of quarks in colliding hadrons. It is shown that using both the QGSM and NLO QCD one can describe the experimental data rather successfully in a wide region of transverse momenta. We also present some predictions for the future experiments on the beauty baryon production in $pp$ collisions at LHC energies and on the charmed meson production in $\bar{p}p$ reactions at GSI energies.

Comments: 8 pages, 10 figures. Talk given at International Conference on Hadron Structure (HS 09), Tatranska Strba, Slovak Republic, August 29th-September 3rd, 2009