a Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies, Université de Paris XI, Bâtiment 211, F-91405, Orsay Cedex, France
b Leningrad Nuclear Physics Institute, SU-188350, Gatchina, USSR
Abstract:
It is shown that the absorption correction due to gluon rescattering changes drastically the value of the cross section for heavy quark production at and also the ratio of c and b cross sections. The cross section for b-quark production, estimated from the data on muon and J/ψ production should be increased by a factor of about 2–2.5 at Fermilab-Tevatron energies.