Deforming baryons into confining strings

We find explicit probe D3-brane solutions in the infrared of the Maldacena-Nuñez background. The solutions describe deformed baryon vertices: [Formula Presented] external quarks are separated in spacetime from the remaining [Formula Presented]. As the separation is taken to infinity we recover known solutions describing infinite confining strings in [Formula Presented] gauge theory. We present results for the mass of finite confining strings as a function of length. We also find probe D2-brane solutions in a confining type IIA geometry, the reduction of a [Formula Presented] holonomy M theory background. The relation between these deformed baryons and confining strings is not as straightforward.