LHC - perspectives at the energy frontier

After a design and construction phase that lasted more than two decades, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) started its first run in 2010 and after just over two years, the discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC was announced. In the future the LHC collision energy will be increased by nearly a factor of two, and the dataset will be increased by more than a factor of 100. These improvements dramatically increase the potential for finding new physics at the weak scale via either precision measurements or direct searches or both. The LHC is in a unique position to directly explore the weak energy scale and shed light on some of the biggest puzzles in nature, e.g. the origin of Dark Matter or the hierarchy problem.