What is the second-order Born approximation?

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Homework Statement



Equation (10.30) in Jackson is the first-order Born approximation.
What is the second-order Born approximation?


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I can get the first-order Born approximation in Jackson's textbook.
If I want to obtain the second-order (or n-th order) Born approximation how can I start to find the solution?
I don't know how to attack this problem.

Many thanks!
 

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You take the ##\textbf{A}_{sc}## you got using the Born approximation and feed it back into eq. (10.27) to refine the solution.