  The existence of a dilaton as a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson in spontaneous
breaking of scale symmetry is predicted in beyond standard model theories in
which electroweak symmetry is broken via strongly coupled conformal dynamics.
Such a particle is expected to have a mass below the conformal symmetry
breaking scale $f$ and couplings to standard model particles similar to those
of the SM Higgs boson. In this paper we estimate, for the first time, the
dilaton production in exclusive processes considering Pomeron - Pomeron ($\pom
\pom$) and photon - photon ($\gamma \gamma$) interactions, which are
characterized by two rapidity gaps and intact hadrons in the final state. Our
results indicate that if the dilaton is massive ($M_{\chi} \ge 2 M_W$), the
study of dilaton production by $\pom \pom$ interactions in $pp$ collisions can
be useful to determine its mass and the conformal energy scale.
