2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/47232Searches for new physics in the first year of running of LEP2, at energies of 161 and 172 GeV, are summarized. After a short review of WW results and their implications on new physics, searches for the Higgs boson and SUSY particles, analyses of four-jet final states and constraints on possible explanations for the HERA high Q**2 anomaly are discussed in turn.LaTeX, 15 pages, 7 eps figures, needs iopconf1.sty, included. To appear in the proceedings of "Beyond the Desert", Castle Ringberg, Tegernsee, Germany, 8-14 June 1997High Energy Physics - PhenomenologyHigh Energy Physics - Experimenttext