2026-03-29
How should a research group preserve negative results before they turn into unspoken folklore?
Repeated dead ends are often remembered socially, not structurally, which makes them hard to reuse.
research processknowledge management
Kang-Kang Shao
Visitor
Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST)
Advisors: Qin Qin, Fu-Sheng Yu
Research Interests
Heavy flavor physics
Inclusive charm decays
HQET and OPE
Heavy-flavor phenomenology
About
I am currently a visitor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST).
My current work focuses on inclusive charm decays, with particular interests in Heavy Quark Effective Theory (HQET), Operator Product Expansion (OPE), and heavy-flavor phenomenology. I am especially interested in the interface between analytic theory, data processing, and data-driven extraction of non-perturbative parameters from experimental observables.
Recently, I have been working on decay widths and electron-energy moments in inclusive charm decays, infrared-end extrapolation of measured electron spectra, and phenomenological analyses based on CLEO and BESIII inputs. This site collects my CV, current research directions, journal publications, conference reports, open questions, and a small photography selection.
Selected Publications
View All →Data determination of HQET parameters in inclusive charm decays
Kang-Kang Shao, Chun Huang, Qin Qin
Eur. Phys. J. C
Data-driven extraction of HQET parameters from inclusive charm decays using phenomenological analysis.
Inclusive weak-annihilation decays and lifetimes of beauty-charmed baryons
Guo-He Yang, En-Pei Liang, Qin Qin, Kang-Kang Shao
Phys. Rev. D
Study of inclusive weak-annihilation decays and lifetime structure in beauty-charmed baryons.
Open Questions
2026-03-12
When does a smaller, cleaner evaluation protocol beat a larger benchmark with noisier assumptions?
Some low-resource settings seem to reward tighter experimental framing more than broader task coverage.
evaluationbenchmarking
2026-02-21
Can field photographs function as problem-formulation tools rather than only as illustrations?
Visual artifacts sometimes capture structure and attention cues before the formal question is articulated.
visual thinkingresearch methods
2026-01-30
What makes an open problem legible enough for collaboration without prematurely forcing a solution path?
The line between useful framing and over-commitment is often where promising collaborations stall.
collaborationproblem formulation
News
2025-09-17
Published the paper "Data determination of HQET parameters in inclusive charm decays" in Eur. Phys. J. C.
2025-08
Delivered a talk at the 2025 BESIII Charm Hadron Physics Workshop.
2024-11
Gave a talk at the 2nd Wuhan Youth Forum on High Energy Physics.
2024-10
Delivered a plenary presentation at HFCPV 2024 on charm semi-leptonic inclusive decay.
2022-11-01
Published "Inclusive weak-annihilation decays and lifetimes of beauty-charmed baryons" in Physical Review D.