Confinement as Felt by Hadrons

Abstract

The critical behavior of non-order parameter fields is discussed. We show that relevant features of the deconfining phase transition can be determined by monitoring universal properties induced by the order parameter on the physical excitations. Some of the behaviors we uncover are already supported by lattice results.

Comments: 6 pages, Contribution to the International Workshop on QCD: QCD@Work 2003 - Conversano (Italy) 14-18 June 2003 (eConf C030614)