The ATLAS Hadronic Tau Trigger

During the 2012 run the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) reached instantaneous luminosities of nearly $10^{34} cm^{-2} s^{-1}$, with bunch crossings occurring every 50 ns. In this difficult environment of several overlapping interactions per bunch crossing (pile-up) the trigger system of the ATLAS detector has the task of reducing the event rate from 40 MHz to a few hundred Hz while keeping the most interesting physics events. Being the heaviest of all leptons, the tau lepton plays an important role in many physics processes. The ability to trigger on events containing hadronically decaying taus is therefore of special interest. In this poster the hadronic tau trigger is described and its performance during 2012 is shown.