Vortices, Confinement and Higgs fields

Abstract

We review lattice evidence for the vortex mechanism of quark confinement and study the influence of charged matter fields on the vortex distribution.

Comments: 10 pages, 6 eps figures, talk presented by M.F. at the 5th International Conference "Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum", Gargnano, Italy, September 10-14, 2002