1. Diffractive Dissociation Production of Heavy Vector Mesons in Ultra Peripheral Collisions from LHC to FCC Open Access Author: Saylor, Michael Title: Diffractive Dissociation Production of Heavy Vector Mesons in Ultra Peripheral Collisions from LHC to FCC Area of Honors: Physics Keywords: QCDquantum chromodynamicsquantum field theoryparton distribution functionsvector meson photoproductionproton-lead ultra peripheral collision File: Download Michael_Saylor_Spring_2023_Schreyer_Thesis.pdf Thesis Supervisors: Anna Stasto, Thesis SupervisorRichard Wallace Robinett, Thesis Honors Advisor