  In this Letter we explore the direct detection of the dark matter in the
universe, assuming the dark matter particles are degenerate in mass with new
colored particles below TeV scale. The scenario with such a mass spectrum is
difficult to be confirmed or excluded by the present analysis at the LHC
experiments because the QCD jets in the cascade decay of the new particles
produced in the proton-proton collision are too soft to be triggered in the
event selection. It is shown that both of the spin-independent and
spin-dependent couplings of the dark matter with a nucleon are enhanced and the
scattering cross section may reach even the current bound of the direct
detection experiments. Then such a degenerate scenario may be tested in the
direct detection experiments.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology