Mesons, baryons and the confinement/deconfinement transition
Résumé
We relate the Polyakov and anti-Polyakov loops, which determine how energetically costly it is to bring an external static quark or antiquark probe into a bath of quarks and gluons, to the ability of that same medium to provide the conditions for the formation of meson-like or baryon-like configurations that would screen the probes.