Since
a few years experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have
started
exploring the physics at the high energy frontier. A rich harvest
of initial
physics results has been obtained by the ATLAS and CMS
Collaborations that
allow one already to test, at highest energies ever reached in a
laboratory,
the Standard Model (SM) of elementary particles, and to make
searches Beyond
the SM (BSM). Significant results have already been obtained in
searches for
the Higgs Boson, which could establish the postulated electro-weak
symmetry
breaking mechanism in the SM, as well as for BSM physics like
Supersymmetry
(SUSY) with its possible relevance for the Dark Matter in the
Universe, Extra
Dimensions, production of new heavy particles and others. The
status of these BSM
searches, and their future prospects at the LHC, will be
emphasized in this
talk, whereas the details on the Higgs search will be central to a
forthcoming
Colloquium by Prof. S. Bertolucci.