Solution

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Forbidden at tree level. A photon, gluon, boson, or neutral Higgs interaction is flavor diagonal in the quark mass basis, while a boson connects an up-type quark to a down-type quark. The process would therefore require a flavor-changing neutral current, which first appears through loops in the Standard Model.

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