Polarization effects in e^+e^- annihilation processes

Abstract

We present analytic results for first order radiative QCD corrections to e^+e^- annihilation processes into quarks and gluons under the special aspect of polarized final state particles. This aspect involves single-spin polarization, gluon polarization, and the correlation between quark spins for massive final state quarks.

Comments: 20 pages in LaTeX, including 8 Postscript figures, invited talk given at the Institute for Physics, Tartu University, Estonia, May 14th, 2002