Counts and Counts Per Second

When you acquire data using AugerScan, the data is displayed in counts per second (cps). These are the values that are displayed as Min and Max at the top of the AugerScan document.

There are occasions that you may want to know total counts for an element instead of counts per second. For example, this might occur when an element has low counts per second but you want to see how it compares to other elements in total counts.

When you want to see total counts instead of cps, select the Convert to Counts command in the Data menu. If you want to see cps again, select the Revert to Raw command to display the data in cps. (If you want to save the version of the data when counts are used, save the data under a different name before selecting the Revert to Raw command. Use the Save As command in the file menu to create the new AugerScan document in which the data is saved.)