Partially Composite Dark Matter
  In a class of theories where the Higgs field emerges as a pseudo
Nambu-Goldstone boson, it is often assumed that interactions to generate the
top Yukawa coupling provide the Higgs potential as well. Such a scenario
generically requires a little cancellation in the leading contribution to the
Higgs potential, and the electroweak scale is generated by the balance between
the leading and the subleading contributions. We, instead, consider the
possibility that the contribution from the dark matter particle balances
against that from the top quark. The thermal relic of the new particle explains
the abundance of dark matter in a consistent region of the parameter space, and
the direct detection is found to be promising.
