Discovery prospects at the Large Hadron Collider

The physics program at the LHC includes precision tests of the Standard Model (SM), the search for the SM Higgs boson, the search for the MSSM Higgs bosons, the search for Super Symmetry, sensitivity to alternative scenarios such as compositeness, large extra dimensions, etc. This requires general purpose detectors with excellent performance. ATLAS and CMS are general purpose detectors under construction for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Data taking is expected to start in April 2007. The detector performance and the prospects for discoveries are studied in various physics and detector performance working groups. In this talk, we will review the discovery prospects of the LHC.