Search for resonant diboson production with the ATLAS detector

The study of electroweak boson pair production can be used to search for phenomena beyond the Standard Model, and heavy particles decaying to gauge boson pairs are predicted by many scenarios of new physics. We present the results of generic searches for a heavy particle decaying to a pair of bosons in the $WW$, $WZ$ and $ZZ$ decay channels, using the data sample recorded in 2011 at $\sqrt{s} = 7\TeV$ center-of-mass energy by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC.