Published: 2001
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The authors report recent results of D*[sup[+-]] meson, J/[psi] and[Upsilon] production at the Fermilab Tevatron. They observe about 8,000 D*[sup[+-]] mesons reconstructed in the decay chain of D*[r-arrow] D[sub[pi]][sup 0], D[sup 0][r-arrow] K[mu]+X. They measure the integrated D*[sup+] production cross section to be 347[+-] 65(stat.)[+-] 58(sys.) nb for the rapidity range[vert-bar][eta](D*[sup+])[vert-bar]1.0 and the transverse momentum range p[sub T] (D*[sup+]) 10 GeV/c. The measurement is slightly higher than the theoretical prediction, especially at lower pT range. We also measure the polarization of J/[psi] at production and find that the measured transverse polarization is not well explained by the color-octet model proposed to explain the anomalously high J/[psi] production cross section. We also present a new result on[Upsilon] production and polarization. Production of the[Upsilon] is consistent with being unpolarized.