Search for Exotics Physics at the LHC, Erez Etzion (Tel Aviv)

Last year's discovery of the Higgs particle by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations provided an experimental confirmation of the last untested area of the Standard Model of particle physics. This moves the focus of the High Energy community to the search for Physics beyond the Standard Model. There are various extensions to the Standard Model aiming at explaining its deficiencies, such as the missing explanation of the large difference between the Planck scale and the electroweak scale, known as the hierarchy problem, the source for dark matter in the universe, the nature of neutrino oscillations and others. We will review the searches for Physics Beyond the Standard Model based on the data collected by the ATLAS experiment during the 7 and 8 TeV runs of the LHC, and if time allows discuss the prospect for the runs at the new energy regime of 13-14 TeV expected for next year.