%0 Conference Paper %F Oral %T The SVZ-Expansion and Beyond %+ Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Astroparticules (LPTA) %A Narison, S. %Z 7 pages in 2-column format, 1 figure, 4 tables, Talk given at the Workshop Understanding Confinement (Ringberg Castle, 16-21th May 2005) and at QCD 05 International Conference (Montpellier, 4-8th July 2005) %< avec comité de lecture %Z PTA/05-32 %B Workshop Understanding Confinement %C Ringberg Castle, Germany %P 1-7 %8 2005-05-16 %D 2005 %Z hep-ph/0508259 %Z Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex] %Z Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Lattice [hep-lat] %Z Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph] %Z Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th] %Z Physics [physics]/Nuclear Theory [nucl-th]Conference papers %X I discuss the standard SVZ-expansion of the QCD two-point correlators in terms of the QCD vacuum condensates and beyond it due to a new unflavoured 1/Q^2-term (tachyonic gluon mass squared \lambda^2) which modelizes the effects of uncalculated higher order perturbative terms. The approach is confronted with low-energy and lattice data. One can notice that, in the different examples studied here, high-dimension condensates are expected to deviate largely from their vacuum saturation (large N_c) values, while the new 1/Q^2-term due to \lambda^2 solves the hadronic mass scale hierarchy-puzzle encountered in the early SVZ-sum rule analysis and improves the low-energy phenomenology. From tau-decay data, one can extract the running strange quark mass m_s(2 GeV)=(93^{+29}_{-32}) MeV and a more accurate value of the QCD coupling \alpha_s(M_Z)=0.117+- 0.002. %G English %L in2p3-00025720 %U https://hal.in2p3.fr/in2p3-00025720 %~ IN2P3 %~ LPTA %~ CNRS %~ UNIV-MONTP2 %~ UNIV-MONTPELLIER %~ UM1-UM2