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Low energy supersymmetry provides an attractive extension of the Standard Model, which leads to the unification of gauge couplings at large energies, may provide a natural understanding of the electroweak symmetry breaking scale in terms of the supersymmetry breaking scale and incorporates a Dark Matter candidate. This scenario predicts the presence of new charged
and colored bosons and fermions at the TeV scale, as well as new charged and neutral Higgs bosons.
These new particles may affect the Higgs phenomenology via mixing with the Standard Model-like Higgs bosons or via radiative corrections to its couplings. On the other hand, the current experimental results show good agreement of the Higgs properties with the Standard Model predictions. I will discuss under what conditions the Higgs acquires Standard Model properties. As an example, I will present an attractive scenario in which light Higgs and supersymmetric particles are present, which lead to corrections to the Higgs phenomenology that are small enough to avoid present experimental constraints, but can be probed at the current run of the LHC within the next few years.