Top quarks in hot dense matter in the CMS detector

A feasibility study of the measurement of the top quark pair production cross section using the muon+jets channel in heavy-ion collisions is presented. Data, corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 0.404 nb$^{-1}$ at 5.02 TeV/nucleon, accumulated by the CMS experiment is used. After establishing a robust event selection we evaluate the expected composition of the sample in data. Due to the still low $S/B$ ratio, no observation of this process has been made in our study. Further improvements on the baseline selection studied in this note are furthermore discussed.