BEAUTY HADRON PRODUCTION AT HERA-B ENERGY IN DUAL PARTON MODELS

Abstract

Production of charmed and beauty mesons and baryons in hadron-nucleon collisions at not very high energy is considered in the framework of the Quark-Gluon String Model. We take into account the possible corrections to the model which disappear at asymptotically high energies but could be important at comparatively low energies, essentially in the case of heavy flavour production. The case of nuclear targets is also considered and the $A$-dependence of charmed and beauty hadron yields is calculated. Predictions for the case of beauty hadron production at $\sqrt{s}$ = 39 GeV are presented.