  We study the experimental signatures of top flavored dark matter (top FDM) in
direct detection searches and at the LHC. We show that for a dark matter mass
above 200 GeV, top FDM can be consistent with current bounds from direct
detection experiments and relic abundance constraints. We also show that next
generation direct detection experiments will be able to exclude the entire
perturbative parameter region for top FDM. For regions of parameter space where
the flavor partners of top FDM are not readily produced, the LHC signatures of
top FDM are similar to those of other models previously studied in the
literature. For the case when the flavor partners are produced at the LHC, we
study their impact on a search based on transverse mass variables and find that
they diminish the signal significance. However, when the DM flavor partners are
split in mass by less than 120-130 GeV, the LHC phenomenology becomes very
distinctive through the appearance of displaced vertices. We also propose a
strategy by which all parameters of the underlying model can be experimentally
determined when the flavor partners can be observed.
