The paper “Global symmetries and partial confinement“, co-authored by Masanori Hanada, Jack Holden (Southampton), Matthew Knaggs (Kings College London, Liverpool), and Andy O’Bannon (Southampton), has been published in the Journal of High Energy Physics. The paper was accepted in less than six weeks, and is the first published paper of PhD students Holden and Knaggs. A link to the published pdf (open access) is here. The paper presents two examples in gauge theories of global symmetries that are spontaneously broken in the confined phase and preserved in the deconfined phase, and they show that this symmetry is spontaneously broken in the partially-deconfined phase. Accompanying numerical work leads to the conjecture that global symmetries may provide order parameters to distinguish completely and partially deconfined phases generically, including at finite N. The image below shows the front page of the paper.