Observation of B+→J/ψ3π+2π− and B+→ψ(2S)π+π+π− decays

Eur. Phys. J. C (2017) 77:72 DOI 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4610-6 Regular Article - Experimental Physics Observation of B+→J/ψ3π+2π−and B+→ψ(2S)π+π+π− decays LHCb Collaboration CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland Received: 6 October 2016 / Accepted: 7 January 2017 / Published online: 6 February 2017 © CERN for the benefit of the LHCb collaboration 2017. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Abstract The decays B+→J/ψ3π+2π−and B+→ ψ(2S)π+π+π−are observed for the first time using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0fb−1, collected by the LHCb experiment in proton–proton collisions at the centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV. The branching fractions relative to that of B+→ψ(2S)K+are measured to be B(B+→J/ψ3π+2π−) B(B+→ψ(2S)K+)=(1.88±0.17±0.09)×10−2, B(B+→ψ(2S)π+π+π−) B(B+→ψ(2S)K+)=(3.04±0.50±0.26)×10−2, where the first uncertainties are statistical and the second are systematic. 1 Introduction The B+meson is a bound state of a heavy b quark and a u quark, with well known properties and a large number of decay modes [1], but little is known about decays of B+ mesons to a J/ψmeson plus a large number of light hadrons. The B+→J/ψ3π+2π−decay channel is of particular interest, since it is one of the highest multiplicity final states currently experimentally accessible. Evidence for the corresponding decay of the B+ cmeson has recently been reported by the LHCb collaboration [2], with the measured branching fraction and qualitative behaviour of the multipion system consistent with expectations from QCD factorisation [3,4]. In this scheme, the B+ c→J/ψ3π+2π−decay is characterized by the form factors of the B+ c→J/ψW+transition and the spectral functions for the conversion of the W+boson into light hadrons [5–8]. Different decay topologies contribute to decays of B+mesons into charmonia and light hadrons, affecting the dynamics of the multipion system and enabling the role of factorisation in B+meson decays to be probed. e-mail: Ivan.Belyae[email protected] This paper describes an analysis of B+→J/ψ3π+2π− decays, including decays to the same final state that proceed through an intermediate ψ(2S)resonance. Charge-conjugate modes are implied throughout the paper. The ratios of the branching fractions for each of these decays to that of the normalisation decay B+→ψ(2S)K+, R5π≡ B(B+→J/ψ3π+2π−) B(B+→ψ(2S)K+), Rψ(2S)≡ B(B+→ψ(2S)π+π+π−) B(B+→ψ(2S)K+),(1) are measured, where the ψ(2S)meson is reconstructed in the J/ψπ+π−final state and the J/ψmeson is reconstructed in its dimuon decay channel. In addition, a search for intermediate resonances in the multipion system is performed and a phase-space model is compared to the data and to the predictions from QCD factorisation [3–8]. The results are based on pp collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 and 2.0fb−1collected by the LHCb experiment at centre-of-mass energies of √s=7 and 8 TeV, respectively. 2 Detector and simulation The LHCb detector [9,10] is a single-arm forward spectrometer covering the pseudorapidity range 2 <η<5, designed for the study of particles containing b or c quarks. The detector includes a high-precision tracking system consisting of a silicon-strip vertex detector surrounding the pp interaction region, a large-area silicon-strip detector located upstream of a dipole magnet with a bending power of about 4 Tm, and three stations of silicon-strip detectors and straw drift tubes placed downstream of the magnet. The tracking system provides a measurement of momentum, p, of charged particles with a relative uncertainty that varies from 0.5% at low momentum to 1.0% at 200 GeV/c. The minimum distance of a track to a primary vertex (PV), the impact parameter, is measured with a resolution of (15 +29/pT)μm, where pT 123 72 Page 2 of 12 Eur. Phys. J. C (2017) 77 :72 is the component of the momentum transverse to the beam in GeV/c. Different types of charged hadrons are distinguished using information from two ring-imaging Cherenkov detectors(RICH). Photons, electrons and hadrons are identified by a calorimeter system consisting of scintillating-pad and preshower detectors, an electromagnetic calorimeter and a hadronic calorimeter. Muons are identified by a system composed of alternating layers of iron and multiwire proportional chambers. The online event selection is performed by a trigger [11], which consists of a hardware stage, based on information from the calorimeter and muon systems, followed by a software stage, which applies a full event reconstruction. The hardware trigger selects muon candidates with pT>1.48 (1.76)GeV/cor pairs of opposite-sign muon candidates with a requirement that the product of the muon transverse momenta is larger than 1.7(2.6)GeV2/c2for data collected at √s=7(8)TeV. The subsequent software trigger is composed of two stages, the first of which performs a partial event reconstruction, while full event reconstruction is done at the second stage. In the software trigger the invariant mass of well-reconstructed pairs of oppositely charged muons forming a good-quality two-track vertex is required to exceed 2.7 GeV/c2, and the two-track vertex is required to be significantly displaced from all PVs. The analysis technique reported below is validated using simulated events. In the simulation, pp collisions are generated using Pythia [12,13] with a specific LHCb configuration [14]. Decays of hadronic particles are described by EvtGen [15], in which final-state radiation is generated using Photos [16]. A model assuming QCD factorisation is implemented to generate the decays B+→J/ψ3π+2π− and B+→ψ(2S)π+π+π−[5]. The interaction of the generated particles with the detector and its response are implemented using the Geant4 toolkit [17,18] as described in Ref. [19]. 3 Candidate selection The decays B+→J/ψ3π+2π−,B +→ψ(2S)π+π+π− and B+→ψ(2S)K+are reconstructed using the decay modes J/ψ→μ+μ−and ψ(2S)→J/ψπ+π−followed by J/ψ→μ+μ−. Similar selection criteria are applied to all channels in order to minimize the systematic uncertainties. Muon, pion and kaon candidates are selected from wellreconstructed tracks and are identified using information from the RICH, calorimeter and muon detectors. Muon candidates are required to have a transverse momentum larger than 550 MeV/c. Both pion and kaon candidates are required to have a transverse momentum larger than 250 MeV/cand momentum between 3.2 and 150 GeV/cto allow good particle identification. To reduce combinatorial background due to tracks from the pp interaction vertex, only tracks that are inconsistent with originating from a PV are used. Pairs of oppositely charged muons originating from a common vertex are combined to form J/ψ→μ+μ−candidates. The mass of the dimuon combination is required to be between 3.020 and 3.135 GeV/c2. The asymmetric mass range around the known J/ψmeson mass [1] is chosen to include the low-mass tail due to final-state radiation. To form a B+candidate, the selected J/ψcandidates are combined with 3π+2π−or K+π+π−candidates for the signal and control decays, respectively. Each B+candidate is associated with the PV with respect to which it has the smallest χ2 IP, which is defined as the difference in the vertex fit χ2 of the PV with and without the particle under consideration. To improve the mass resolution, a kinematic fit [20] is applied. In this fit the mass of the μ+μ−combination is fixed to the known J/ψmass, and the B+candidate’s momentum vector is required to originate at the associated PV. A good-quality fit is required to further suppress combinatorial background. In addition, the measured decay time of the B+candidate, calculated with respect to the associated PV, is required to be larger than 200 μm/c, to suppress background from particles coming from the PV. 4 Signal and normalisation yields The mass distribution for selected B+→J/ψ3π+2π− candidates is shown in Fig. 1a. The signal yield is determined with an extended unbinned maximum likelihood fit to the distribution. The signal is modelled with a Gaussian function with power law tails on both sides [21], where the tail parameters are fixed from simulation and the peak position and the width of the Gaussian function are allowed to vary. The combinatorial background is modelled with a uniform distribution. No peaking backgrounds from misreconstructed or partially reconstructed decays of beauty hadrons are expected in the fit range. The resolution parameter obtained from the fit is found to be 6 ±1MeV/c2and is in good agreement with the expectation from simulation. The observed signal yield is 139 ±18. The statistical significance for the observed signal is determined as Sσ=−2logLB/LS+B, where LS+Band LBdenote the likelihood associated with the signal-plus- background and background-only hypothesis, respectively. The statistical significance of the B+→J/ψ3π+2π−signal is in excess of 10 standard deviations. For the selected B+candidates, the existence of a resonant structure is searched for in the J/ψπ+π−combinations of final-state particles. There are six possible J/ψπ+π−combinations that can be formed from the J/ψ3π+2π−final state. The background-subtracted distribution of all six possible combinations in the narrow range around the known 123 Eur. Phys. J. C (2017) 77 :72 Page 3 of 12 72 5.2 5.25 5.3 5.35 5.4 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 3.67 3.68 3.69 3.7 −5 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 Candidates/(4 MeV/c2) N/(2MeV/c2) m(J/ψ3π+2π−)m(J/ψπ+π−)[GeV/c2] [GeV/c2] LHCb LHCb(a) (b) Fig. 1 a Mass distribution of the selected B+→J/ψ3π+2π−candidates. bSum of mass distributions for all background-subtracted J/ψπ+π−combinations. The total fit function is shown with thick solid (orange)lines and the signal contribution with thin solid (red) lines.Thedashed (blue)lines represent the combinatorial background and non-resonance component for plots aand b, respectively 5.2 5.25 5.3 5.35 5.4 0 5000 10000 15000 20000 25000 30000 3.67 3.68 3.69 3.7 0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000 2200 2400 Candidates/(4 MeV/c2) N/(1MeV/c2) m(J/ψπ+π−K+)m(J/ψπ+π−)[GeV/c2] [GeV/c2] LHCb LHCb (a)(b) Fig. 2 Mass distributions aof the selected B+→ψ(2S)K+candidates and bbackground-subtracted J/ψπ+π−combination. The total fit function is shown with thick solid (orange)lines and the signal contribution with thin solid (red)lines.Thedashed (blue)lines represent the combinatorial background and non-resonance component for plots aand b, respectively ψ(2S)meson mass is shown in Fig. 1b, where each event enters six times. The sPlot technique is used for background subtraction [22] with the J/ψ3π+2π−mass as the discriminating variable. The signal yield of B+→ ψ(2S)[→ J/ψπ+π−]π+π+π−is determined using an extended unbinned maximum likelihood fit to the background-subtracted J/ψπ+π−mass distribution. The ψ(2S) component is modelled with a Gaussian function with power law tails on both sides, where the tail parameters are fixed from simulation. The non-resonant component is modelled with the phase-space shape multiplied by a linear function. The mass resolution obtained from the fit is 1.9±0.3MeV/c2, in good agreement with the expectation from simulation. The observed signal yield is 61 ±10. The B+→ψ(2S)[→ J/ψπ+π−]K+decay is used as a normalisation channel for the measurements of the relative branching fractions. The mass distribution for selected B+→J/ψπ+π−K+candidates is shown in Fig. 2a. An extended unbinned maximum likelihood fit to the distribution is performed using the model described above for the signal and an exponential function for the background. The mass resolution parameter obtained from the fit is 6.60± Table 1 Signal yields, N,ofB +decay channels. Uncertainties are statistical only Channel N(B+) B+→J/ψ3π+2π−139 ±18 B+→ψ(2S)[→ J/ψπ+π−]π+π+π−61 ±10 B+→ψ(2S)[→ J/ψπ+π−]K+13,554 ±118 0.02 MeV/c2, again in good agreement with the expectations from simulation. The background-subtracted mass distribution of the J/ψπ+π−system in the region of the ψ(2S)mass is shown in Fig. 2b. The signal yield of B+→ψ(2S)[→ J/ψπ+π−]K+is determined using an extended unbinned maximum likelihood fit to the J/ψπ+π−distribution, where the background is subtracted using the sPlottechnique with the J/ψπ+π−K+ mass as the discriminating variable. The ψ(2S)and the nonresonant components are modelled with the same functions used for the signal channel. The mass resolution obtained from the fit is 2.35 ±0.02 MeV/c2. The signal yields are summarized in Table 1. 123 72 Page 4 of 12 Eur. Phys. J. C (2017) 77 :72 5.2 5.25 5.3 5.35 5.4 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 10− 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 Candidates/(4 MeV/c2) N/(40 MeV/c2) m(J/ψ3π+2π−)m(π+π−)[GeV/c2][GeV/c2] LHCb LHCb (a) (b) Fig. 3 a Mass distribution of the selected B+→J/ψ3π+2π−candidates with the additional requirement of every J/ψπ+π−combination to be outside of ±6MeV/c2around the known ψ(2S)mass. The total fit function, the B+signal contribution and the combinatorial background are shown with thick solid (orange), thin solid (red)and dashed (blue)lines, respectively. bSum of mass distributions for all possible background-subtracted π+π−combinations. The factorisationbased model prediction is shown by a solid (red)line, and the expectation from the phase-space model is shown by a dashed (blue)line. The total fit function, shown with a dotted (green)line, is an incoherent sum of a relativistic Breit–Wigner function with the mean and natural width fixed to the known ρ0values and a phase-space function multiplied by a second-order polynomial 5 Study of the multipion system A search for intermediate light resonances is performed on the set of events which do not decay through the ψ(2S)resonance. For this, the additional criterion that the mass of every J/ψπ+π−combination is outside ±6MeV/c2around the known ψ(2S)meson mass [1] is applied. The invariantmass distribution for B+→J/ψ3π+2π−candidates selected with the veto on the ψ(2S)resonance is shown in Fig. 3a. A clear peak, corresponding to the non-resonant decay B+→J/ψ3π+2π−decay is visible. The signal yield for this channel is determined using an extended unbinned maximum likelihood fit using the function described above. The observed signal yield is 80 ±15 with a statistical significance of 6.8 standard deviations. The resonance structure is investigated in the π+π−, π+π+,π−π−,π+π+π−,π+π−π−,π+π+π+,2 π+2π−, 3π+π−and 3π+2π−combinations of final-state particles using the sPlot technique, with the reconstructed J/ψ3π+2π−mass as the discriminating variable. The resulting background-subtracted mass distribution of all possible π+π−combinations is shown in Fig. 3b, along with the theoretical predictions from the factorisation approach and the phase-space model [5–8]. A structure is seen that can be associated to the ρ0meson. The distribution is fitted with a sum of a relativistic Breit–Wigner function with the mean and natural width fixed to the known ρ0values plus a phase-space shape multiplied by a second-order polynomial. No significant narrow structures are observed for other multipion combinations. The distributions for all other combinations of pions are compared with predictions of both a factorisation approach and a phase-space model, as shown in Fig. 4. For all fits the χ2per degree of freedom, χ2/ndf, is given in Table 2. The prediction from the factorisation approach is found to be in somewhat better agreement with the data than that from the phase-space model, giving better χ2/ndf values for eight out of nine distributions examined. In a similar way intermediate light resonances are searched for in the three-pion system recoiling against ψ(2S)→ J/ψπ+π−in B+→ψ(2S)π+π+π−decays. The resonant structure is investigated in the π+π−,π+π+and π+π+π−combinations. The distributions for these combinations of pions are compared with predictions of both the factorisation approach and a phase-space model, as shown in Fig. 5. The corresponding χ2/ndf values are summarized in Table 3. Similarly to the non-resonant case, the prediction from the factorisation approach is found to be in somewhat better agreement with the data than that from the phase-space model. 6 Efficiencies and systematic uncertainties The two ratios of branching fractions defined in Eq. 1are measured as R5π=NJ/ψ3π+2π− Nψ(2S)[→J/ψπ+π−]K+×εψ(2S)[→J/ψπ+π−]K+ εJ/ψ3π+2π− ×B(ψ(2S)→J/ψπ+π−), Rψ(2S)=Nψ(2S)[→J/ψπ+π−]π+π+π− Nψ(2S)[→J/ψπ+π−]K+ ×εψ(2S)[→J/ψπ+π−]K+ εψ(2S)[→J/ψπ+π−]π+π+π− , where NXrepresents the observed signal yield and εX denotes the efficiency for the corresponding decay. The known 123 Eur. Phys. J. C (2017) 77 :72 Page 5 of 12 72 Fig. 4 Distributions of aπ−π−,bπ+π+,cπ+π+π−, dπ+π−π−,eπ+π+π+,f 2π+2π−,g3π+π−and h3π+2π−masses in the B+→J/ψ3π+2π−decay. The prediction from the factorisation-based model is shown by solid (red)lines,and the expectation from the phase-space model is shown by dashed (blue)lines 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 −5 0 5 10 15 20 25 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 −5 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 0.5 11.5 0 20 40 60 80 100 0.5 11.5 −10 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 0.5 1 1.5 −5 0 5 10 15 20 25 1 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 −10 0 10 20 30 40 50 11.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 −5 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2 2.2 −10 −5 0 5 10 15 20 25 (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) LHCb LHCb LHCb LHCb LHCb LHCb LHCb LHCb N/(40MeV/c2) N/(40MeV/c2) N/(60MeV/c2) N/(60MeV/c2) N/(60MeV/c2) N/(50MeV/c2) N/(50MeV/c2) N/(50MeV/c2) m(π−π−)m(π+π+) m(π+π+π−)m(π+π−π−) m(π+π+π+)m(2π+2π−) m(3π+π−)m(3π+2π−) GeV/c2 GeV/c2 GeV/c2 GeV/c2 GeV/c2 GeV/c2 GeV/c2 GeV/c2 value of (34.46 ±0.30)%[1]isusedfortheψ(2S)→ J/ψπ+π−branching fraction. The efficiency is determined as the product of the geometric acceptance and the detection, reconstruction, selection and trigger efficiencies. The efficiencies for hadron identification as a function of the kinematic parameters and event multiplicity are determined from data, using calibration samples of kaons and pions from the self-identifying decays D∗+ →D0π+followed by D0→K−π+[23]. The remaining efficiencies are determined using simulated events. To determine the overall efficiency for the B+→ J/ψ3π+2π−channel, the individual efficiencies for the resonant and non-resonant components are averaged according to the measured proportions found in the data, 123 72 Page 6 of 12 Eur. Phys. J. C (2017) 77 :72 Table 2 The χ2per degree of freedom for the factorisation-based and phase-space models for the multipion system in non-resonant B+→ J/ψ3π+2π−decays Multipion system Factorisation model Phase-space model π+π−0.7 2.6 π−π−2.8 3.7 π+π+1.7 4.2 π+π+π−1.8 2.3 π+π−π−2.8 5.0 π+π+π+1.0 2.5 2π+2π−3.5 4.4 2π+π−0.7 1.0 3π+2π−2.2 1.7 k≡Nψ(2S)[→J/ψπ+π−]π+π+π− NJ/ψ3π+2π−=0.44 ±0.06. The ratio kis calculated taking into account the correlation in the observed values in the numerator and denominator. The ratios of the efficiency for the normalization channel εψ(2S)K+to the efficiencies for resonant, εψ(2S)π+π+π−, and non-resonant decays εJ/ψ3π+2π−,NR, are determined to be εψ(2S)K+ εψ(2S)π+π+π−=6.75 ±0.13, Table 3 The χ2per degree of freedom for the factorisation-based and phase-space models for the multipion system recoiling against ψ(2S) in B+→ψ(2S)π+π+π−decays Multipion system Factorisation model Phase-space model π+π−0.5 1.3 π+π+0.8 0.7 π+π+π−1.3 1.6 εψ(2S)K+ εJ/ψ3π+2π−,NR =4.18 ±0.05. The ratio of efficiencies for the normalisation channel to that of the B+→J/ψ3π+2π−mode is given by εψ(2S)K+ εJ/ψ3π+2π−=k×εψ(2S)K+ εψ(2S)π+π+π−+(1−k) ×εψ(2S)K+ εJ/ψ3π+2π−,NR =5.31 ±0.06. The statistical uncertainty in the ratio kis accounted for in the calculation of the statistical uncertainty for the ratio R5π. Since the decay products in the channels under study have similar kinematics, many systematic uncertainties cancel in the ratio(for instance those related to muon identification). The different contributions to the systematic uncertainties affecting this analysis are described below. The resulting individual uncertainties are presented in Table 4. Fig. 5 Distributions of a π+π−,bπ+π+and c π+π+π−masses in the B+→ ψ(2S)π+π+π−decay. The predictions from the factorisation-based model is shown by solid (red)lines,and the expectation from the phase-space model is shown by dashed (blue)lines 0.4 0.6 0.8 11.2 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 0.4 0.6 0.8 11.2 2− 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 1.6 −5 0 5 10 15 20 25 (a) (b) (c) LHCb LHCb LHCb N/(100 MeV/c2) N/(100 MeV /c2) N/(100 MeV/c2) m(π+π−)m(π+π+) m(π+π+π−) GeV/c2 GeV/c2 GeV/c2 123 Eur. Phys. J. C (2017) 77 :72 Page 7 of 12 72 Table 4 Relative systematic uncertainties (in %) for the ratios of branching fractions. The total uncertainty is the quadratic sum of the individual components Source Rψ(2S)R5π Fit model 4.62.4 Decay model 5.91.1 Hadron interactions 2 ×1.42×1.4 Track reconstruction 1.91.8 Hadron identification 0.30.3 Size of the simulation sample 1.91.2 Trigger 1.11.1 B(ψ(2S)→J/ψπ+π−)0.9– Total 8.54.7 The dominant uncertainty arises from the imperfect knowledge of the shape of the signal and the background in the B+and ψ(2S)mass distributions. The dependence of the signal yields on the fit model is studied by varying the signal and background parametrisations. The systematic uncertainties are determined for the ratios of event yields in different channels by taking the maximum deviation of the ratio obtained with the alternative model with respect to the baseline fit model. The uncertainty determined for Rψ(2S) and R5πis 4.6 and 2.4%, respectively. To assess the systematic uncertainty related to the B+→ J/ψ3π+2π−(B+→ψ(2S)π+π+π−) decay model used in the simulation, the reconstructed mass distribution of the three-pion(five-pion) system in simulated events is reweighted to reproduce the distribution observed in data. There is a maximum change in efficiency of 5.9% for the resonant mode and 4.7% for the non-resonant mode leading to a 1.1% change in the total efficiency, which is taken as the systematic uncertainty for the decay model. Further uncertainties arise from the differences between data and simulation, in particular those affecting the efficiency for the reconstruction of charged-particle tracks. The first uncertainty arises from the simulation of hadronic interactions in the detector, which has an uncertainty of 1.4% per track [24]. Since the signal and normalisation channels differ by two tracks in the final state, the corresponding uncertainty is assigned to be 2.8%. The small difference in the track-finding efficiency between data and simulation is corrected using a data-driven technique [24]. The uncertainties in the correction factors are propagated to the efficiency ratios by means of pseudoexperiments. This results in a systematic uncertainty of 1.9 and 1.8% for the ratios of Rψ(2S)and R5π, respectively. The uncertainties on the efficiency of hadron identification due to the limited size of the calibration sample are also propagated to the efficiency ratios by means of pseudoexperiments. The resulting uncertainties are equal to 0.3% for both branching fraction ratios. Additional uncertainties related to the limited size of the simulation sample are 1.9 and 1.2% for Rψ(2S)and R5π, respectively. The trigger is highly efficient in selecting decays with two muons in the final state. The trigger efficiency for events withaJ/ψ→μ+μ−produced in beauty hadron decays is studied using data in high-yield modes and a systematic uncertainty of 1.1% is assigned based on the comparison of the ratio of trigger efficiencies for high-yield samples of B+→J/ψK+and B+→ψ(2S)K+decays in data and simulation [25]. 7 Results and summary A search for the decay B+→J/ψ3π+2π−is performed using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0fb−1, collected by the LHCb experiment. A total of 139 ±18 signal events are observed, representing the first observation of this decay channel. Around half of the B+ candidates are found to decay through the ψ(2S)resonance. The observed yield of B+→ψ(2S)π+π+π−decays is 61 ±10 events, which is the first observation of this decay channel. Using the B+→ψ(2S)K+decay as a normalisation channel, the ratios of the branching fractions are measured to be R5π= B(B+→J/ψ3π+2π−) B(B+→ψ(2S)K+) =(1.88 ±0.17 ±0.09)×10−2, Rψ(2S)= B(B+→ψ(2S)π+π+π−) B(B+→ψ(2S)K+) =(3.04 ±0.50 ±0.26)×10−2, where the first uncertainties are statistical and the second are systematic. The ratio R5πcontains also the contribution from B+→ψ(2S)[→ J/ψπ+π−]π+π+π−decays. The multipion distributions in the J/ψ3π+2π−final state(vetoing the ψ(2S)meson contribution) and in the ψ(2S)π+π+π−final state are studied. A structure which can be associated to the ρ0meson is seen in the π+π− combinations of the J/ψ3π+2π−final state. The multipion distributions are compared with the theoretical predictions from the factorisation approach and a phase-space model. The prediction from the factorisation approach is found to be in somewhat better agreement with the data than the prediction from the phase-space model. Acknowledgements We thank A. V. Luchinsky for interesting discussions and providing the models based on QCD factorisation for B+→J/ψ3π+2π−and B+→ψ(2S)π+π+π−decays. We express 123 72 Page 8 of 12 Eur. Phys. J. C (2017) 77 :72 our gratitude to our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC. We thank the technical and administrative staff at the LHCb institutes. We acknowledge support from CERN and from the national agencies: CAPES, CNPq, FAPERJ and FINEP (Brazil); NSFC(China); CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG and MPG(Germany); INFN(Italy); FOM and NWO(The Netherlands); MNiSW and NCN(Poland); MEN/IFA (Romania); MinES and FASO(Russia); MinECo(Spain); SNSF and SER(Switzerland); NASU(Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); NSF (USA). We acknowledge the computing resources that are provided by CERN, IN2P3(France), KIT and DESY(Germany), INFN(Italy), SURF(The Netherlands), PIC (Spain), GridPP (United Kingdom), RRCKI and Yandex LLC(Russia), CSCS (Switzerland), IFIN-HH (Romania), CBPF(Brazil), PL-GRID (Poland) and OSC (USA). We are indebted to the communities behind the multiple open source software packages on which we depend. Individual groups or members have received support from AvH Foundation(Germany), EPLANET, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and ERC(European Union), Conseil Général de Haute-Savoie, Labex ENIGMASS and OCEVU, Région Auvergne(France), RFBR and Yandex LLC(Russia), GVA, Xunta- Gal and GENCAT (Spain), Herchel Smith Fund, The Royal Society, Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 and the Leverhulme Trust(United Kingdom). 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