New Developments with the Enge Split-Pole Spectrograph at Florida State University

The large acceptance Enge Split-Pole Spectrograph (SPS), formerly at Yale University, has recently been installed at Florida State University with a complement of new and upgraded auxiliary detectors and data acquisition systems. This setup can be used to measure nuclear structure information such as excitation energies, branching ratios, and angular distributions of states populated via transfer reactions. The auxiliary detector systems in conjunction with the SPS will be used for a variety of nuclear structure and astrophysics applications, including indirect measurements of reaction rates involving proton-rich nuclei, spectroscopic factors for exploring complete proton shell closures, unbound single proton states in the $\it{fp}$-shell, super-radiance in the $\it{sd}$-shell, and the measurement of ($\alpha$, p) reactions important in X-ray burst nucleosynthesis. The commissioning and first scientific runs with the SPS will be discussed.