In close collaboration with groups from other universities, after several years of detector R&D, our group has started to build-up the forward endcap calorimeter (FWEC) at the research center Jülich in 2023. After a first very successful test beam time at the COSY accellerator with a partly equipped detector system - 20% of the almost 3856 PBWO4-crystals were installed - at its design temperature of -25°C, the detector system was recently transported to Bonn. At the FTD, we will first finish setting up the detector system, before it will then be installed at ELSA to be used together with the new INSIGHT-experiment at ELSA.
August 20th, 2024 the detector arrived at the FTD, using heavy load transportation since the detector already now weigths about 4 tons. After he was slowly and carefully moved into the assembly hall, the detector is now ready for further installation of the remaining detector modules.