TY - CONF A1 - Greiner, Carsten A1 - Noronha-Hostler, Jacquelyn A1 - Noronha, Jorge T1 - Hagedorn states and thermalization : XLIX International Winter Meeting on Nuclear Physics, 24 - 28 January 2011, Bormio, Italy T2 - Proceedings of Science N2 - In recent years, Hagedorn states have been used to explain the equilibrium and transport properties of a hadron gas close to the QCD critical temperature. These massive resonances are shown to lower h/s to near the AdS/CFT limit close to the phase transition. A comparison of the Hagedorn model to recent lattice results is made and it is found that the hadrons can reach chemical equilibrium almost immediately, well before the chemical freeze-out temperatures found in thermal fits for a hadron gas without Hagedorn states. Y1 - 2011 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/27319 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-273196 SN - 1824-8039 VL - 2011 IS - PoS(Bormio 2011)033 PB - Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, SISSA CY - Trieste ER -