Polarized electron-positron scattering and annihilation in the Salam-Weinberg model

In this thesis the lepton-antilepton scattering respectively production in the Salam-Weinberg model is treated. Thereby in the initial state arbitrary lepton-antilepton pairs and in the final state arbitrary fermion-antifermion pairs are permitted. The calculations have been performed analytically and beyond this with the symbol processing (non-numerical) code SCHOONSCHIP. Thereby topics were regarded in comparison to the calculations hitherto present: i) The particles are in the initial and final state arbitrarily polarized. ii) No high-energy approximation is made. iii) All contributions of the fields characteristic for the Salam-Weinberg model are regarded. iv) Beside the resonance widths also the Ksub(μ)Ksub(ν) terms in the propagators for the vector fields are fully included in the calculations. v) The scattering plane and the laboratory plane can be mutually oriented arbitrarily. From the manifold of the scattering processes which can be described by these formulas only Bhabha scattering and lepton pair production in e+e- interactions are numerically evaluated and discussed. As typical example for the production of the up quarks the canti c production and for the production of the down quarks the banti b production is treated. The evaluation was performed for three different energies, different degrees of polarization and configurations, and different orientations of the scattering plane relatively to the laboratory plane. (orig./HSI)