Search for $W^\prime$ bosons through decays to boosted top-jets

We propose an alternate model-independent method to search for $W^\prime$ bosons at the Large Hadron Collider by looking at dijets where one jet is identified as a boosted top-jet. Performing a detector simulated signal and background study, we demonstrate that the reach in effective coupling $g^\prime$ is improved over existing analysis methods by a factor of 5 for $W^\prime$ masses below 1.8 TeV, and extend the reach in mass up to 2.5 TeV in the 8 TeV data sample. In order to reach the maximum sensitivity, we describe a previously unexplored set of backgrounds involving muon tagging of high energy $b$ jets and standard model backgrounds to top-tag jets that we simulate. We propose a series of data-driven samples that might be used to measure the efficiencies for these new backgrounds in the LHC data.