Recent Results from the Large Hadron Collider

The recent discovery of a new heavy particle at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) with properties compatible with a Higgs boson is a major breakthrough in high energy physics and opens very exciting prospects for the understanding of electroweak symmetry breaking. The basis for this success has been the outstanding performance of the accelerator and of the experiments. In 2012 the LHC has already more than doubled the integrated luminosity delivered in 2011 to ATLAS, CMS and LHCb, at a slightly increased centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. The data collected in the last two years is the basis for the very rich physics programme leading to this recent discovery. Precise measurements at the LHC lead to an improved understanding of Standard Model QCD and electroweak processes in pp collisions, such as jet, W/Z and top production, as well as in the area of heavy flavour physics. Searches for Supersymmetry and for other new physics beyond the Standard Model have not (yet) shown any positive evidence. New limits on rare B decays and other precision flavour measurements significantly constrain new physics models that lead to large deviations from Standard Model predictions. In this talk the latest results from ATLAS, CMS and LHCb will be reviewed, with a special emphasis on the discovery of the Higgs-like particle.