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In the forthcoming years, proton-oxygen ($pO$) and oxygen-oxygen ($OO$) collisions will be conducted at the LHC. The high luminosities of Run 3 will provide valuable insights into processes involving the collision of light and heavy ions. Such collisions present an opportunity to study the nuclear dependence and the transition regime of various phenomena, which are expected to exhibit distinct behaviors in lead-lead collisions compared to proton-proton collisions. In this work, we calculate the rapidity, transverse momentum distributions, and total cross sections associated with the exclusive $\rho$ and $J/\Psi$ photoproduction in ultraperipheral $pO$ and $OO$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=9$ TeV and $\sqrt{s}=5.52$ TeV, respectively. The calculations are performed using the dipole formalism with the bCGC and IP-SAT models for the dipole scattering amplitude, as well as the BG and GLC models for the overlap function, and predictions are presented for the kinematic ranges covered by the ALICE and LHCb experiments. Our results indicate that a future experimental analysis of the exclusive vector meson photoproduction in $pO$ and $OO$ collisions will be useful to constrain the description and improve our understanding of QCD dynamics at high energies.
