Excitation of hexadecapole transitions in 196Pt via electron scattering and their interpretation in the interacting boson approximation

Form factors of transitions to three Iπ = 4+ states in 196Pt, obtained from electron scattering, are analyzed in the framework of the interacting boson approximation. Structure functions differ strongly from liquid drop model predictions and provide an indication for the need of including the g-boson in IBA