  At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear
Research (CERN), protons and heavy ions are accelerated to velocities close to
the speed of light and collided in order to study particle interactions and
give us an insight to the fundamental laws of nature. The energy and intensity
of the particle beams at the LHC are unprecedented, and a tremendous amount of
data is collected by three experiments on the circular ring of the LHC that are
specialized in proton-proton collisions. The data confirm the most successful
theory of particle physics to date known as the standard model of particle
physics to very good precision, including the long expected and recently
discovered Higgs boson. The standard model cannot, however, accommodate
experimentally observed phenomena like gravity, neutrino masses, and dark
matter. The theory can also be theoretically unsatisfying as a result of
parameters that go unexplained, such as the relatively low value of the Higgs
mass despite its large quantum corrections, implying a lack of understanding.
For this reason, in addition to precision measurements of standard model
observables, experiments search for new physics beyond the standard model that
could explain some of the shortcomings of the standard model. A selection of
results for searches for new physics beyond the standard model using data
recorded by three experiments on the LHC are presented in this talk.
