Quark–meson coupling model with the cloudy bag

Abstract: Using the volume coupling version of the cloudy bag model, the quark–meson coupling model is extended to study the role of pion field and the properties of nuclear matter. The extended model includes the effect of gluon exchange as well as the pion-cloud effect, and provides a good description of the nuclear matter properties. The relationship between the extended model and the EFT approach to nuclear matter is also discussed. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]