  Jet-like three-particle azimuthal correlations can discriminate various
physical scenarios that have been proposed to explain the observed strong
modification to two-particle azimuthal correlations. The three-particle
correlation analysis is notoriously difficult in heavy-ion collisions due to
the large combinatoric backgrounds. We describe the general idea behind the
jet-like three-particle azimuthal correlation analysis, with emphasis put on
the subtraction of the combinatoric backgrounds. We discuss in detail the
various systematic effects in such an analysis.
