A scale-invariant chiral effective Lagrangian is constructed for octet pions and a dilaton figuring, as Nambu-Goldstone bosons, with vector mesons incorporated as hidden gauge fields. The Lagrangian is built to the next-to-leading order in chiral-scale counting without baryon fields and then to leading order including baryons. The resulting theory is hidden scale symmetric and local symmetric. We also discuss some possible applications of the present Lagrangian.

• Received 28 December 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.114011