  The flux tube model offers a pictorial description of what happens during the
deconfinement phase transition in QCD. The 3-point vertices of a flux tube
network lead to formation of baryons upon hadronisation. Therefore,
correlations in the baryon number distribution at the last scattering surface
are related to the preceding pattern of the flux tube vertices, and provide a
signature of the nearby deconfinement phase transition. I discuss the nature of
the expected signal, which should be observable in heavy ion collisions at RHIC
and LHC.
