Is strong enough evidence to prove the hypothesis

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In 1995, the Fermi Laboratory announced the discovery of the top quark, the last of six quarks predicted by the "standard model of physics." The evidence for its existence was statistical in nature and involved signals created when antiprotons and protons were forced to collide.

In a Physical Review Letters paper documenting the evidence, Abe, Akimoto, and Akopian (known in physics circle as the three A's) based their conclusion on a theoretical analysis that indicated that the number of decay events in a certain time interval would have a Poisson distribution with a mean equal to 6.7 if a top quark did not exist and with a larger mean if it did exist. In a careful analysis of the data the three A's showed that the actual count was 27.

Is this strong enough evidence to prove the hypothesis that the mean of the Poisson distribution was greater than 6.7?

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