AN EFFECTIVE LAGRANGIAN WITH BROKEN SCALE AND CHIRAL-SYMMETRY .2. PION PHENOMENOLOGY

We extend an effective Lagrangian embodying broken scale and chiral sy mmetry to include explicit chiral symmetry breaking and an additional chiral-invariant term which allows for an axial coupling constant grea ter than unity. We also include a chiral Lagrangian for the isotriplet vector mesons which leads to a renormalization of the pion field. The properties of nuclear matter and nuclei, low-energy pi N scattering a nd the behavior of quantities such as the pion mass and axial coupling at finite density are discussed.