Search for Heavy Charged Vector Bosons Decaying to a Charged Lepton and a Neutrino with the ATLAS Experiment

Many new physics scenarios beyond the Standard Model (SM) predict the presence of heavy vector bosons. One of such scenarios considered in this poster is Sequential Standard Model W’ boson which has the same couplings to fermions as the SM W boson and a width that increases linearly with the W’ mass. Another scenario is a chiral boson W*. It has quite different couplings to fermions than W’. This leads to kinematic distributions significantly different from those of the W’. This poster summarizes ATLAS searches for charged vector bosons decaying to a charged lepton and a neutrino with LHC Run 1 data.