2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/38607It is well established that physical quantities like the heavy quark potentials get temperature independent at sufficiently short distances. As a first application of this feature we suggest a new order parameter for the confinement/deconfinement phase transition. Our investigations are based on recent lattice studies.2 pages, 2 figures, contribution to 'Statistical QCD', Bielefeld, August 26-30, 2001High Energy Physics - Latticetext