  Using the formalism of the light-cone wave function in perturbative QCD
together with the hybrid factorization, we compute the cross-section for three
particle production at forward rapidities in proton-nucleus collisions. In this
picture, the three produced partons --- a quark accompanied by a gluon pair, or
two quarks plus one antiquark --- are all generated via one or two successive
splittings of a quark from the incoming proton, that was originally collinear
with the latter. The three partons are put on-shell by their scattering off the
nuclear target, described as Lorentz-contracted shockwave. We explicitly
compute the three-parton Fock space components of the light-cone wave function
of the incoming quark and its outgoing state, which encodes the information
both on the evolution in time as well as the scattering process. This outgoing
state is also an ingredient for other interesting calculations, like the
next-to-leading order correction to the cross-section for the production of a
pair of jets.
