A new hard QCD phenomenon - proton diffraction into three jets

Abstract

We argue that the process of the proton diffraction into three jets in proton-nucleus scattering at LHC will allow to investigate the light-cone wave function of protons, generalized gluon densities in nuclei at small x, as well as the interplay of the color transparency and opacity phenomena.

contribution to the workshop "Hard Probes in Heavy Ion Collisions at the LHC"