  The DAMIC-M (DArk Matter In CCDs at Modane) experiment employs thick, fully
depleted silicon charged-coupled devices (CCDs) to search for dark matter
particles with a target exposure of 1 kg-year. A novel skipper readout
implemented in the CCDs provides single electron resolution through multiple
non-destructive measurements of the individual pixel charge, pushing the
detection threshold to the eV-scale. DAMIC-M will advance by several orders of
magnitude the exploration of the dark matter particle hypothesis, in particular
of candidates pertaining to the so-called "hidden sector." A prototype, the Low
Background Chamber (LBC), with 20g of low background Skipper CCDs, has been
recently installed at Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane and is currently taking
data. We will report the status of the DAMIC-M experiment and first results
obtained with LBC commissioning data.
