TY - INPR A1 - Zabrodin, Eugene E. A1 - Bravina, Larissa A1 - Stöcker, Horst A1 - Greiner, Walter T1 - Irreversibility, steady state, and nonequilibrium physics in relativistic heavy ion collisions N2 - Heavy ion collisions at ultrarelativistic energies offer the opportunity to study the irreversibility of multiparticle processes. Together with the many-body decays of resonances, the multiparticle processes cause the system to evolve according to Prigogine s steady states rather than towards statistical equilibrium. These results are general and can be easily checked by any microscopic string-, transport-, or cascade model for heavy ion collisions. The absence of pure equilibrium states sheds light on the di culties of thermal models in describing the yields and spectra of hadrons, especially mesons, in heavy ion collisions at bombarding energies above 10 GeV/nucleon. PACS numbers: 25.75.-q, 05.70.Ln, 24.10.Lx KW - Nichtumkehrbarkeit KW - ultrarelativistische energie KW - Kollisionen schwerer Ionen KW - Heavy ion collisions KW - ultrarelativistic energie KW - irreversibility state Y1 - 2005 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3120 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-22789 ER -