Core-collapse supernova explosions triggered by a quark-hadron phase transition during the early post-bounce phase

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We explore explosions of massive stars, which are triggered via the quark-hadron phase transition during the early post bounce phase of core-collapse supernovae.

• We construct a quark equation of state, based on the bag model for strange quark matter.
• The transition between the hadronic and the quark phases is constructed applying Gibbs conditions.
• The resulting quark-hadron hybrid equations of state are used in core-collapse supernova simulations, based on general relativistic radiation hydrodynamics and three flavor Boltzmann neutrino transport in spherical symmetry.