Largest silicon detector

According to Official Guinness Records,

The CMS2 Silicon Stop Tracking Detector is designed to track the three dimensional positions of particles produced in collisions inside the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment, within the Large Hadron Collider. This array has a total surface area of 205 m2, roughly the size of a tennis court.

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