VIP experiment explanation needed

[phyfreak]

OK I have been stuck up with this VIP experiment relating to pauli's exclusion principle, I reached here somehow by searching about the tetraneutrons but anyways can anyone explain me waht the following lines convey ?


"The VIP experiment aims to improve the current limit on the violation of the Pauli principle for electrons, (P<1.7 x 10-26), reported in [2], by four orders of magnitude (P< 10-30), exploring a region where new theories [8,22] allow for a possible PEP violation. "


source

http://www.lnf.infn.it/esperimenti/vip/

Thanks in advance.

 

[azntoon]

This sentence is describing the aim of the VIP experiment. The Pauli Exclusion Principle (PEP) states that two electrons in an atom cannot have the same set of quantum numbers. This experiment aims to test the validity of the PEP by trying to improve the current limit of the violation of the PEP for electrons, which is currently 1.7 x 10-26, by four orders of magnitude (10-30). This would explore a region where new theories suggest a possible PEP violation.