Evidence for top quark production in nucleus-nucleus collisions

Georgios Konstantinos Krintiras

Using $1.7\pm 0.1\mathrm{n}{\mathrm{b}}^{-1}$ of lead-lead ($A=208$) collision data recorded by the CMS experiment at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of 5.02 TeV, we report evide…