%0 Journal Article %T V-A Hadronic Tau Decays: a Laboratory for the QCD Vacuum %+ Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Astroparticules (LPTA) %A Narison, Stephan %< avec comité de lecture %Z 04-054 %@ 0370-2693 %J Physics Letters B %I Elsevier %V 624 %N 3-4 %P 223 - 232 %8 2005 %D 2005 %Z hep-ph/0412152 %R 10.1016/j.physletb.2005.08.007 %Z Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph] %Z Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex]Journal articles %X ALEPH/OPAL data on the V-A spectral functions from hadronic tau decays are used in connection with a set of Laplace transform sum rules (LSR) for fixing the size of the QCD vacuum condensates up to dimension 18. Our results favour the ones from large-N_c QCD within the Minimal Hadronic Approximation (MHA) and show a violation of about a factor 2-5 of the vacuum saturation estimate of the dimension-six to -ten condensates. We scrutinize the different determinations of the QCD vacuum condensates using tau-decays data. After revisiting some of the existing results, we present coherent values of the condensates from different methods. %G English %L hal-00266461 %U https://hal.science/hal-00266461 %~ IN2P3 %~ LPTA %~ CNRS %~ UNIV-MONTP2 %~ UNIV-MONTPELLIER %~ UM1-UM2