Reconstruction and identification of hadronically decaying tau leptons with the ATLAS experiment

Tau leptons are important to many physical processes in high-energy physics. They are used for measurements of Standard Model processes, and searches for new physics beyond the Standard Model. With their high mass, tau leptons are prime signatures for e.g. Higgs boson decays to fermions. In these proceedings, the reconstruction and identification algorithms for hadronically decaying tau leptons in Run-2 of the LHC are presented, along with the identification performance in 13 TeV data collected in 2015.