  The semileptonic decay of single-top-quark production provides a strong probe
for W-prime bosons at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. We propose an explicit
search strategy for pp -> W-prime -> tb -> l nu b j for use at 7 TeV and 8 TeV
collider energies, and integrated luminosities ranging from 5 to 20 fb^-1.
Based on detector-simulated results, we predict that a lower bound can be
placed on the mass of right-handed W-prime_R with standard model-like couplings
of m_{W-prime_R} > 1800 GeV at sqrt{S}=7 TeV with 5 fb^-1, and of m_{W-prime_R}
> 2000 GeV at 8 TeV with 20 fb^-1. For left-handed W-prime_L bosons we find a
lower bound of 1750-1800 GeV at 7 TeV and 5 fb^-1 depending on the sign of the
interference with standard model single-top-quark production. We present
effective coupling g^prime dependent limits for accessible masses, and stress
the importance of these limits for comparison with theoretical models.
