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The DAMIC-M experiment is a direct detection experiment searching for dark matter particles using thick, fully depleted silicon charge-coupled devices (CCDs), aiming for a target exposure of 1 kg-year. With the inclusion of skipper readout technology, the experiment is capable of achieving single-electron resolution through multiple non-destructive measurements of individual pixel charges, lowering the detection threshold to the eV-scale. At the end of 2021, the Low Background Chamber (LBC) prototype was installed at the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane, testing the performance of skipper CCD in a low-background environment. We present the current status of DAMIC-M and first results from the LBC on the search of low-mass dark matter interacting with electrons, including constrains on dark matter daily modulations for this type of interactions.
