Gluequark Dark Matter

Strongly interacting dark sectors with accidentally stable particles can offer an attractive scenario for explaining the observed dark matter abundance. I will focus on theories with fermions in the adjoint representation of the dark gauge group and charged under the Standard Model. In this case, the candidate is an accidentally stable bound state of a dark gluon and a dark fermion, with peculiar properties and a rich cosmological history. A few models emerge as viable and I will outline their interesting phenomenological prospects.