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The first stage and primary workhorse within SourceSim is SuperSim which is developed in a publicly available toolkit package for the simulation of particles passing through matter, called Geant4. This package is essentially about declaring the geometry and materials of the entire experimental apparatus and letting Geant4 the heavy lifting (using cross section calculations to simulate interactions on an particle-by-particle basis). Geant4 allows for the incorporation of non-standard model particle theories such as WIMPs (as people can contribute and release their own packages, like SuperSim) in WIMPSim. With the apparatus defined, similar description tools in Geant4 can be used to simulate a source which creates particles that can then be propagated through the experiment in multiple steps to create events. How does the signal in HV and iZIP different from each other? How does this affect their dark matter search regime?