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Description
This talk will review the status of direct searches for physics beyond the Standard Model at the LHC, from the mature Run 2 programme to the emerging Run 3 landscape and the prospects of the HL-LHC era. After a broad overview of established search programmes—including supersymmetry, dark matter, heavy resonances —the discussion will focus on what is genuinely new in Run 3: not simply increased centre-of-mass energy and integrated luminosity, but also improved detector performance, upgraded trigger capabilities, and new strategies. The talk will conclude with a forward-looking perspective on Run 4 and the HL-LHC, where both the opportunities and the challenges for direct BSM searches will become qualitatively different, requiring increasingly creative approaches to probe elusive new physics.