  Pseudo-Goldstone dark matter coupled to the Standard Model via the Higgs
portal offers an attractive framework for phenomenologically viable
pseudo-scalar dark matter. It enjoys natural suppression of the direct
detection rate due to the vanishing of the relevant (tree level) Goldstone
boson vertex at zero momentum transfer, which makes light WIMP-like dark matter
consistent with the strong current bounds. In this work, we explore prospects
of detecting pseudo-Goldstone dark matter at the LHC, focusing on the vector
boson fusion (VBF) channel with missing energy. We find that, in substantial
regions of parameter space, relatively light dark matter ($m_\chi < 100$ GeV)
can be discovered in the high luminosity run as long as it is produced in
decays of the Higgs-like bosons.
