I Kurie Plot Y-Axis: Counts, Energy & Time

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I am trying to make a Kurie plot for Sr-90 data collected. I have my data in counts per energy value, and I know the length of time that the measurement was taken for. How do I compute the y-axis values to produce a Kurie plot? Most of what I have read involves momentum; is there a way to get it from energy and counts?
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The y-axis is just the square root of the frequency. Energy and momentum have a direct relation, but the x-axis is energy anyway.
 
mfb said:
The y-axis is just the square root of the frequency. Energy and momentum have a direct relation, but the x-axis is energy anyway.
By frequency, you mean the rate of returns from the detector? i.e. counts/min?
 
I just Googled "Kurie plot" . 7 of the first 10 plots had their axes labeled. This obviously isn't working for you - can you explain why not?
 
Vanadium 50 said:
I just Googled "Kurie plot" . 7 of the first 10 plots had their axes labeled. This obviously isn't working for you - can you explain why not?
Thanks. Yes, they have them labelled with $$\sqrt \frac{N(E)}{pEF(Z, E)S(E)}$$

I am not sure what ##N(E)##, ##F(Z,E)##, and ##S(E)## refer to as they are functions. I tried searching for them, and I couldn't determine what the functions are. The closest I found was something that mentioned ##F(Z,E)## is often looked up in some table.

Some help with what the terms under the root sign would be greatly appreciated.
 
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