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The determination of the CP nature of the top quark Yukawa coupling is addressed in this phenomenological work, using $tbar{t}h$ events at the $sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV LHC, with $hrightarrow bbar b$ and through the dilepton decay channel of $tbar{t}$. Signal events were generated for pure $CP$-even, pure $CP$-odd and mixed-$CP$ coupling scenarios. Standard Model (SM) backgrounds were also considered. Angular distributions and asymmetries were studied and found to be potentially good probes to the $CP$ nature of the coupling, even after detector simulation and full event reconstruction using a kinematic fit. Expected limits to the $tbar th$ production cross-section times branching ratio were obtained for a range of top quark Yukawa $CP$-mixing angles and for different integrated luminosities of the LHC.
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