Thermal Dark Matter from a Confining Sector
  We study a class of dark matter models in which the dark matter is a
baryon-like composite particle of a confining gauge group and also a
pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson associated with the breaking of an enhanced chiral
symmetry group. The approximate symmetry decouples the dark matter mass from
the confinement scale of the new gauge group, leading to correct thermal relic
abundances for dark matter masses far below the unitary bound, avoiding the
typical conclusion of thermally produced composite dark matter. We explore the
available parameter space in a minimal example model based on an SU(2) gauge
group, and discuss prospects for experimental detection.
