We report the first determination of the absolute branching fractions of the X(3872) decays by globally analyzing the measurements provided by the Belle, BaBar, BESIII, and LHCb experiments. The branching fractions of X(3872) → π + π − J/ψ and D * 0D0 + c.c. are found to be (4.1 +1.9 −1.1 )% and (52.4 +25.3 −14.3 )%, respectively. The branching fractions of the decays X(3872) → γJ/ψ, γψ(3686), ωJ/ψ, and π 0 χ c1 are also determined. The global fit implies that the fraction of X(3872) decays which are not observed in experiments is (31.9 +18.1 −31.5 )%, which indicates that there is still large room for searching for new decay modes of the X(3872). With the branching fraction, we determine the production cross section of e + e − → γX(3872) at center-of-mass energy 4.226 GeV.
Observed in 2003 by the Belle experiment [1], the X(3872) has been the most puzzling state among all the so-called charmoniumlike XYZ states for all these years [2]. Being very close to the D * 0D0 + c.c. mass threshold, it is supposed to have a large D * 0D0 + c.c. molecule component [3], and its large production rate in pp and pp collision experiments suggests that there is a charmonium state χ c1 (2P ) core in its wave function [4][5][6][7]. * Electronic address: chunhua@lnnu.edu.cn † Electronic address: yuancz@ihep.ac.cn