Effects of Systematic Uncertainties on Short-Baseline Reactor Antineutrino Experiments

The forthcoming generation of short-baseline reactor antineutrino experiments will attempt to measure the small neutrino oscillation amplitude $~\sin^2{\left( 2\theta_{13} \right)}$ with an order of magnitude better sensitivity than their predecessors. These experiments will be limited by systematic uncertainties. We will present a method for calculating the sensitivity of a typical reactor antineutrino experiment based on a ``pulls" approach. We will survey common sources of systematic uncertainty in reactor experiments and quantitatively examine their impacts on experimental sensitivity to $\sin^2{\left( 2\theta_{13} \right)}$.