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We study the Higgs boson (h) decay to two light jets at the 14 TeV High-Luminosity-LHC (HL-LHC), where a light jet (j) represents any non-flavor tagged jet from the observational point of view. The decay mode h→gg is chosen as the benchmark since it is the dominant channel in the Standard Model (SM), but the bound obtained is also applicable to the light quarks (j=u,d,s). We estimate the achievable bounds on the decay branching fractions through the associated production Vh (V=W±,Z). Events of the Higgs boson decaying into heavy (tagged) or light (un-tagged) jets are correlatively analyzed. We find that with 3000 fb−1 data at the HL-LHC, we should expect approximately 1σ statistical significance on the SM Vh(gg) signal in this channel. This corresponds to a reachable upper bound BR(h→jj)≤4 BRSM(h→gg) at 95% confidence level. A consistency fit also leads to an upper bound BR(h→cc)<15 BRSM(h→cc) at 95% confidence level. The estimated bound may be further strengthened by adopting multiple variable analyses, or adding other production channels.
