Early Physics Results

Since one year experiments at the Large Hadron Collider have started exploring physics at the high energy frontier. A rich harvest of initial physics results has been obtained, already documented in some 75 journal publications. Concentrating for this presentation on the two general purpose experiments ATLAS and CMS, the initial data have allowed one to test, at highest energies ever reached in a laboratory, the Standard Model (SM) of elementary particles, and to make early searches Beyond the SM (BSM). Significant results have been already obtained in searches for the Higgs Boson, which would establish the postulated electro-weak symmetry breaking mechanism in the SM, as well as for BSM physics like Supersymmetry (SUSY), heavy new particles, quark compositeness, and others. The important SM physics measurements are giving confidence that the experiments are well in shape for their journey into the unchartered territory of New Physics anticipated with the LHC.