Alternative methods for top quark mass measurements at the CMS

Abstract

The top quark mass is a fundamental parameter of the standard model and together with the W boson mass and the Higgs boson mass. It provides a strong self-consistency check of the electroweak theory. Recently several new measurements of the top quark mass using alternative observables and reconstruction methods are performed by the CMS collaborations at the CERN LHC. Alternative methods can give a insight by providing different systematic sensitivities while standard ones are currently limited by jet energy uncertainties. We introduce various results from new methods including the one using a charmed meson, which are found to be consistent with what is obtained in standard measurements.