  We consider quantum scattering from a compactly supported potential $q$. The
semiclassical limit amounts to letting the wavenumber $k \to \infty$ while
rescaling the potential as $k^2 q$ (alternatively, one can scale Planck's
constant $\hbar \searrow 0$). It is well-known that, under appropriate
conditions, for $\om \in \bbS_{n-1}$ such that there is exactly one outgoing
ray with direction $\om$ (in the sense of geometric optics), the differential
scattering cross section $|f(\om,k)|^{2}$ tends to the classical differential
cross section $|f_{cl}(\om)|^2$ as $k \uparrow \infty$. It is also clear that
the same can not be true if there is more than one outgoing ray with direction
$\om$ or for \emph{nonregular} directions (including the forward direction
$\theta_0$). However, based on physical intuition, one could conjecture $|f|^2
\to |f_{cl}|^2 + \sigma_{cl} \delta_{\theta_0}$ where $|f_{cl}|^2$ is the
classical cross section and $\delta_{\theta_0}$ is the Dirac measure supported
at the forward direction $\theta_0$. The aim of this paper is to prove this
conjecture.
