Discovery Physics at the LHC

Introductory lecture to the phenomenology of, and the LHC search for physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM). The first lecture discusses the empirical and theoretical reasons that require BSM physics, and how Supersymmetry, extra dimension and little Higgs models can cope with these. The second lecture introduces the experimental approaches adopted by ATLAS and CMS to search for BSM physics signals, and to measure some of their properties.