ABSTRACT
One of the main motivations of the experiments at the LHC, started in September 2008, is to search for SUSY particles (or sparticles, for short). The LHC first operational run (2009–2013) has seen unprecedented success, including the discovery of a Higgs boson. During this phase the LHC has reached record energies of 7 and 8 TeV from p p collisions. After a 2 year shutdown, in April 2015, the LHC started its second operational run (2015–2018) at 13 TeV, which is still ongoing as we write. In this chapter, we will briefly describe the LHC project. Then we will discuss the region of parameter space of the MSSM where SUSY particles can be probed at the CERN machine [131,132]. We will show that, if SUSY exists at the EW scale, it should be easy to find signals for it at the LHC. If the LHC does find SUSY, this would be one of the greatest achievements in the history of theoretical physics.
