Abstract
New data for X(3872) production in B decays provide a separation between X production and decay, sharpen several experimental puzzles and impose serious constraints on all models. Both charged and neutral B decays produce a narrow neutral resonant state that decays to both J/ψρand J/ψω, while no charged resonances in the same multiplet are found. This suggests that the X is an isoscalar resonance whose production conserves isospin, while isospin is violated only in the decay by an electromagnetic interaction allowing the isospin-forbidden J/ψρdecay. A tetraquark isoscalar X model is proposed which agrees with all present data, conserves isospin in its production and breaks isospin only in an electromagnetic X(3872) --> J/ψρ^o decay. The narrow X decay width results from the tiny phase space available for the J/ψωdecay and enables competition with the electromagnetic isospin-forbidden J/ψρdecay which has much larger phase space. Experimental tests are proposed for this isospin production invariance.
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