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\label{sec:intro}   \section{\ref{sec:intro} Introduction}  \label{sec:intro}  The recently discovered Higgs boson is measured so far by the CMS and ATLAS experiments to have properties compatible with the standard model predictions, as shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:ellis} from Ref.~\cite{cite:1303.3879}. Combined with the absence of any other discovery so far at the LHC, be it either through precision measurements or via direct searches, this fundamental observation seems to push the energy scale of any physics beyond the standard model above several hundreds GeV. The higher-energy run, expected to start in 2015 at 13-14 TeV, will extend the sensitivity to new physics all the way to 1 TeV or more. It may well be that no fundamental discoveries be made in this range of energy. The existence of new phenomena, however, is a known fact: the observation of non-baryonic dark matter, the accelerating expansion of the universe, the baryon asymmetry, or the nonzero neutrino masses, are striking examples calling for physics beyond the standard model.