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  "abstract": "A neutral Higgs boson $Φ$ with general scalar and pseudoscalar couplings and accompanying jets can be efficiently produced via gluon fusion through heavy-quark loops in high-energy hadronic collisions. We present integrated cross sections and kinematic distributions for the production of a generic Higgs boson $Φ$ in association with three jets, $pp \\to Φjjj$, at order $α_{s}^{5}$. We include the full mass dependence of the top- and bottom-quark loop contributions, combined coherently so that their interference is retained. Earlier finite-mass calculations of $Φ+3$ jets with bottom-quark loops and $CP$-odd or $CP$-mixed couplings were restricted to $gg \\to gggΦ$; we include the complete set of partonic subprocesses, and find that the quark-containing channels supply close to one half of the pseudoscalar three-jet cross section at $\\tanβ=1$. In a Type-II two-Higgs-doublet model the bottom-quark loop comes to dominate the rate as $\\tanβ$ is increased, so that the cross section is non-monotonic in $\\tanβ$. Comparing against the heavy-top effective theory and its form-factor-improved version, we show that the effective description fails in the hard tails of the transverse-momentum and dijet-mass distributions, while the third-jet centrality $z^\\star$ and the rapidity separation of the two leading jets are largely insensitive to the heavy-quark treatment. We further study the multi-jet azimuthal correlation $Φ_{2}$, built from the jet momenta on the two sides of the Higgs boson in rapidity, and find that the bottom-quark contribution modifies its shape even for a state of definite $CP$. For a $CP$-mixed state the interference of the two couplings adds a $\\sin2Φ_2$ term, which a simple counting asymmetry isolates and which no $CP$ eigenstate can produce. Numerical results are presented for the LHC at $\\sqrt{s}=13.6~$TeV and $m_Φ=125.2~$GeV.",
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  "arxiv": "2610.37627",
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  "authors": [
    {
      "name": "Arunima Bhattacharya"
    },
    {
      "name": "Francisco Campanario"
    },
    {
      "name": "Michael Kubocz"
    },
    {
      "name": "Terrance Figy"
    },
    {
      "name": "Tunde Kushimo"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ivan Rosario"
    }
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  "bibtex": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/dvzvq0bs57xc1.bib",
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  "doi": "10.48550/arxiv.2610.37627",
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  "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.37627",
  "pmcid": null,
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  "published": "2026-10-27",
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  "subjects": [
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      "origin": "arxiv:hep-ph",
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  "title": "Using Higgs Boson Production in Association with Three Jets via Gluon Fusion at the LHC to Investigate the CP Properties of the Higgs Boson",
  "title_text": "Using Higgs Boson Production in Association with Three Jets via Gluon Fusion at the LHC to Investigate the CP Properties of the Higgs Boson",
  "type": "preprint",
  "updated_at": "2026-10-30T12:35:50Z",
  "url": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/dvzvq0bs57xc1",
  "venue": "arXiv",
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