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Description
SNO+ is a multi-purpose experiment whose main purpose is to study the nature of the neutrino mass through observation of neutrino-less double beta decay (0$\nu\beta\beta$). Detection of this rare process would indicate that neutrinos are elementary Majorana particles, proving that lepton number is not conserved and providing an estimate of their unknown absolute mass. The SNO+ detector will operate in three distinct phases with different target materials: water, pure scintillator (LABPPO) and tellurium-loaded scintillator. We will report results on the measurement of the radioactive backgrounds, as well as, the results of the solar neutrino and invisible nucleon decay analyses, performed during the water phase, now concluded. Furthermore, the status, potential and prospect of SNO+ for precise solar neutrino measurements and 0$\nu\beta\beta$ search will be presented.
