  We investigate the phenomenology of a scalar top-philic dark matter candidate
when adding a dimension-five contact interaction term, as motivated by possible
underlying extensions of the Standard Model such as composite Higgs models. We
show that the presence of contact interactions can have a major impact on the
dark matter relic density as well as on its direct and indirect detection
prospects, while the collider phenomenology of the model is unaffected. This
underlines the complementarity of collider and cosmological constraints on dark
matter models.
