Exclusive Υ photoproduction in hadronic collisions at CERN LHC energies

The exclusive Upsilon photoproduction in proton-proton and proton-nucleus collisions at LHC energies is investigated using the color dipole formalism and considering different models for the Upsilon wave function and forward dipole-target scattering amplitude. Our goal is to update the color dipole predictions and estimate the theoretical uncertainty present in these predictions. We present predictions for the kinematical ranges probed by the ALICE, CMS and LHCb Collaborations. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.