Panda, P. K. [UNESP]Bracco, M. E. [UNESP]Chiapparini, M. [UNESP]Conte, E. [UNESP]Krein, G. [UNESP]2014-05-272014-05-272002-06-01Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics, v. 65, n. 6, p. 652061-652068, 2002.0556-2813http://hdl.handle.net/11449/66895Excluded volume effects are incorporated in the quark-meson coupling model to take into account in a phenomenological way the hard-core repulsion of the nuclear force. The formalism employed is thermodynamically consistent and does not violate causality. The effects of the excluded volume on in-medium nucleon properties and the nuclear matter equation of state are investigated as a function of the size of the hard core. It is found that in-medium nucleon properties are not altered significantly by the excluded volume, even for large hard-core radii, and the equation of state becomes stiffer as the size of the hard core increases.652061-652068engArtigo10.1103/PhysRevC.65.065206WOS:000176769200075Acesso aberto2-s2.0-00366006872-s2.0-0036600687.pdf