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The First Second of a Typ eI I Sup ernova Convection Accretion and Sho ck Propagation HTHOMAS JANKA Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics University of Chicago S Ellis Avenue Chicago Illinois USA Email thomasgrantauchicagoedu AND EWALD MULLER MaxPlanckInstitut fur Astrophysik 5 KarlSchwarzschildStr D Garching Germany 9 Email ewaldmpagarchingmpgde 9 1 r a M ABSTRACT 3 One and twodimensional hydro dynamical simulations of the neutrinodriven sup ernova 5 explosion of a M  star are p erformed for the phase b etween the stagnation of the 1 prompt sho ck and ab out one second after core b ounce Systematic variation of the 0 3 neutrino uxes from the neutrino sphere shows that the explosion energy explosion 0 time scale initial mass of the protoneutron star and explosive nucleosynthesis of iron 5 group elements dep end sensitively on the strength of the neutrino heating during the 9 / rst few ms after sho ck formation Convective overturn in the neutrinoheated h p region b ehind the sho ck is a crucial help for the explosion only in a narrow window o- of neutrino luminosities Here p owerful explosions can b e obtained only in the multi r dimensional case primarily b ecause the overturn increases the eciency of neutrino t s energy dep osition by allowing co ol p ostsho ck matter to p enetrate inward to the region a of strongest heating while heated gas can quickly rise outward thus reducing its energy loss due to r