A quark-meson coupling model based on Bogoliubov's model of the nucleon

The quark-meson coupling model due to Guichon is formulated on the basis of the independent quark model of the nucleon proposed by Bogoliubov and is applied to a phenomenological description of symmetric nuclear matter. The model predicts, at saturation density, the compressibility $K=249$ MeV and the quark effective mass $m_q^{\ast }=249.1$ MeV, {the effective nucleon mass being $M^{\ast }=747.3$ MeV}. The predicted nucleon mass radius is $r=0.93$ fm.