Maybe a structure like this:
<physics>
tracers = true
<tracers>
<tracers/initialize/sphere>
tstart = ...
origin = ...
radius = ...
nparticles = ...
<tracers/initialize/box>
tstart = ...
x1min = ...
x1max = ...
x2min = ...
x2max = ...
nparticles = ...
Maybe a structure like this: