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SysVar: Consistent and scalable treatment of systematic uncertainties in template-based analyses

Ilias Tsaklidis·Agrim Aggarwal·Georgios Alexandris·Tristan Fillinger·Giacomo De Pietro·Daniel Ivanov·Melisa-Melek Akdag·Markus Prim·Florian Bernlochner
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Propagating systematic uncertainties from correction weights into templates generated from simulated data while preserving correlations in the signal extraction variables becomes increasingly challenging as analyses scale in size. SysVar's lightweight API hides most of the bookkeeping complexity of applying correction weights, building systematic variations, and histogramming nominal and varied templates. This streamlines workflows that are otherwise error-prone but essential for high-precision measurements. Correlations are preserved by propagating the full covariance across the analysis and compressing it into a small set of orthogonal eigenvariations, each defining an ordinary shape nuisance parameter. In this work, we demonstrate SysVar's workflow and impact by combining two independent pseudo-measurements that benefit from consistently correlated systematic uncertainties encoded in the template shapes. SysVar is open-source, pip-installable, and experiment-agnostic.

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Ilias Tsaklidis, Agrim Aggarwal, Georgios Alexandris, Tristan Fillinger, Giacomo De Pietro, Daniel Ivanov, Melisa-Melek Akdag, Markus Prim, Florian Bernlochner. 2026-10-05. SysVar: Consistent and scalable treatment of systematic uncertainties in template-based analyses. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.06117

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