Delta Potential Born Approximation

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In the Born approximation, the scattering amplitude is

where and and are the wave vectors of the incident and scattered waves, respectively. Substituting in the delta function potential, we get

and therefore the differential cross section is

As the distribution is isotropic, the total cross section is

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