  We investigate the theoretical uncertainty on the predictions for the
photoproduction of J/psi and Upsilon states in the proton-nucleus and
nucleus-nucleus collisions at the LHC within the color dipole formalism.
Predictions for the rapidity distributions are presented and the dependence on
the meson wavefunction, heavy quark mass as well as the models for the dipole
cross section are analyzed. We compare directly the theoretical results to the
recent data from ALICE collaboration on J/psi production in pPb collisions at a
centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 5.02 TeV and in PbPb collisions at a
centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 2.76 TeV. Predictions are also
performed for $\Upsilon$ state in PbPb and pPb and pp collisions at the LHC
energies, including the coherent and incoherent contributions.
