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

These proceedings present a search for high-mass states, such as heavy charged vector bosons (W' and W*), decaying to a charged lepton (electron or muon) and a neutrino. Results are based on 20.3 $fb^{-1}$ of proton-proton collision data at $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. No significant excess beyond Standard Model expectations is observed. A W' with Sequential Standard Model couplings is excluded at the 95 % confidence level for masses up to 3.24 TeV. A W* with equivalent coupling strengths is excluded for masses up to 3.21 TeV.